upset - Story 160525 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated insistently in her hand, a relentless metronome marking the relentless rhythm of her disquiet. She ignored it, letting it buzz against her palm. Sarah, usually so eager to answer calls, couldn’t bring herself to speak. The accusation was monstrous, a cruel twist of fate. It was a violation she couldn’t comprehend.

Her gaze drifted to the framed signed first edition of Thorne’s novel, now a mocking monument to a shattered dream. She wanted to smash it, to obliterate the illusion.

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