upset - Story 160438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling coffee shop felt like a prison. Liam watched the barista prepare a drink labeled, "The Midnight Mocha," his very own creation. The coffee shop owner had been a friend. A friend. Liam’s jaw clenched.

He found himself tapping his foot, a nervous rhythm against the polished floor. The pleasant aroma of coffee, once a comfort, now felt like a taunt.

He fought the urge to shout, to tear the posters down. He forced himself to finish his lukewarm tea, the bitterness mirroring his mood, before exiting the shop, his shoulders hunched.

Emotion: upset

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.30 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.42

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion upset. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 upset stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the upset emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the upset vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.395
`😞`	0.303
`无法`	0.246
`ness`	0.238
`unable`	0.238

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.533
`la`	-0.457
`l`	-0.223
`😎`	-0.215
`🤩`	-0.210