upset - Story 160538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay on the kitchen table, a silent accusation. Maria couldn’t bring herself to touch it again. The world had shifted on its axis, and she was left reeling. The scholarship, the foundation of her future, was gone, and the weight of that loss pressed down on her, stealing the air from her lungs. She looked around the cramped apartment, her gaze lingering on the worn furniture and the peeling paint. She had to tell her family, a task that filled her with dread.

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