upset - Story 160470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gleaming grand piano sat silent in the living room, its ivory keys untouched. His sister was selling it. His heart pounded in his chest, a frantic rhythm against his ribs.

He remembered his mother playing, the music filling the house with laughter and joy. He ran a hand across the smooth, polished surface, tracing the curve of the instrument. The piano was the heart of their home.

He felt a searing wave of heat flood his face. The house had never felt so empty. He turned away, unable to meet his sister's gaze. The silence, now, was deafening.

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