upset - Story 160534 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped at Daniel's face as he walked, his usual brisk pace replaced by a slow, dragging shuffle. The scholarship was gone, snatched away by a bureaucratic blunder. He felt a leaden weight in his soul. He’d told his parents he’d be able to ease their financial burden. Now, he’d have to break the news, and the thought twisted in his gut. He kicked a loose pebble, sending it skittering across the pavement, a small, insignificant act of defiance.

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