upset - Story 160502 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window. Inside, Maya paced. The dog, a golden retriever named Gus, had trampled her prize-winning petunias for the third time this week. She scrubbed her hand across her face, feeling the grit of unshed tears. This was supposed to be her sanctuary, this small patch of green. Now it was a battlefield. "He just… he doesn't *care*," she mumbled, the words a thin thread of despair against the drumming rain. Her hands clenched into fists at her sides.

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