upset - Story 160479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the box. Addressed to "Dr. Chen." The old resident. He knew the name, a successful doctor, the owner of a life he did not possess. The sun was hot on his face. He felt the familiar weight of disappointment settle in his chest.

He shuffled to the door.

He signed for the package, and slowly walked back into his apartment. He dropped the box onto the floor. He began to pace. The walls seemed to close in. The space felt confining. He wanted to break free.

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