upset - Story 160480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheerful music from the radio grated on her nerves. A package. "To Mr. Garcia." The previous tenant. Another thing to deal with. Her skin prickled with a mixture of annoyance and something else, something she couldn't quite define.

She opened the door.

She took the package. She placed the package on the table, a sudden sharp pain in her chest. She couldn't focus. She felt a rising panic, a frantic need to escape. She turned and began to gather her things.

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