upset - Story 160537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the campus cafeteria seemed to have faded. A knot formed in Ethan’s throat, making it difficult to swallow. The information, dropped like a bomb during a casual phone call, had shattered his focus. He could barely taste his lunch, the food suddenly tasteless and unappetizing. He pushed the tray away, the clatter of the silverware too loud in his ears. He wanted to be alone, to disappear from the world.

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