upset - Story 160507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the freshly painted fence were immediately tainted by muddy paws. Emily stood in her doorway, the paintbrush still in her hand. Her chest tightened. She’d spent all morning working on the fence, hoping to add a touch of beauty to her yard. Now, it was marred, ruined before it had even a chance to dry. She wanted to throw the brush across the yard. Instead, she took a deep, shaky breath.

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