upset - Story 160505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of the dog's collar as it trotted across her patio stones was like a taunt. From her kitchen window, Clara watched as the dog, a boisterous Labrador, sniffed at the picnic table she had just lovingly set. She'd planned a peaceful afternoon. Now, it was ruined. Her shoulders slumped. She wanted to scream, but the words caught in her throat. She clenched her hands into fists, her fingernails biting into her palms.

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