upset - Story 160522 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the small apartment, each footfall a thunderclap in the sudden silence. The news, delivered with clinical detachment by his editor, reverberated in his skull. Marcus Finch, the literary titan he’d venerated, had lifted entire passages from his unpublished manuscript. A knot twisted in his stomach, a physical manifestation of his distress.

He slammed his fist against the wall, a hollow thud that did little to alleviate the pressure building inside. "It's not possible," he muttered, his voice hoarse. "This can't be real."

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