upset - Story 160488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The foreman, a burly man with a kind face, offered a hesitant, "You okay, miss?" Claire just shook her head, unable to speak. She felt her throat constrict. She knew this was happening, she'd signed the papers. But seeing the wrecking ball swing, felt like a betrayal of sorts.

She recalled the countless birthday parties, the laughter, the secrets whispered in darkened corners. Memories flooded her, a tidal wave of grief. She felt overwhelmed.

She turned and fled, not caring about the dust or the noise, just needing to escape the scene of the crime.

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