upset - Story 160486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm fine," David lied to his sister, his voice tight. He watched the bulldozers, their metal teeth gnashing at the familiar brick facade, and felt his stomach twist. He'd sworn he wouldn't let it get to him, that he was above such sentimentality.

He crossed his arms, the action a futile attempt to contain the turmoil within him. He saw the red, exposed beams and felt a stab of sorrow. The house, which had once seemed so strong and permanent, was now so fragile. He felt a burning in his eyes.

He turned away abruptly and walked toward his car, the roar of the machinery a constant, painful reminder of the end.

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