upset - Story 160535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"But…but that's impossible," Chloe whispered, her voice barely audible. Her carefully crafted facade of composure crumbled. The dean’s explanation felt flimsy, a poor excuse for a devastating mistake. Tears pricked at her eyes, blurring the crisp lines of the office. She'd sacrificed everything for this, working tirelessly to maintain her grades and extracurriculars. Now, all that effort felt…worthless. She abruptly turned and fled the office, the door slamming shut behind her.

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