upset - Story 160531 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya slammed her textbook shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet library. A hot wave washed over her, a prickling sensation that traveled from her scalp down to her fingertips. The letter, clutched in her hand, felt like a burning coal. She re-read the sentence: *“…due to a clerical error, the scholarship was incorrectly awarded…”* Her stomach churned. The financial aid officer's words from earlier buzzed in her ears: "We're so sorry, there's been a mix-up." She felt a sudden urge to flee, to disappear.

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