upset - Story 160536 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I reread the email, the words mocking me with their cold, impersonal tone. A dull ache throbbed behind my temples. My hands felt clammy, and my breath came in shallow, uneven gasps. The scholarship, the key to unlocking my dreams, was being rescinded. Anger boiled within me, a ferocious heat that threatened to consume me. I wanted to lash out, to scream at the injustice of it all, but instead, I just gripped the edge of my desk, my knuckles white.

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