upset - Story 160543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. Emily clutched the phone tightly, her knuckles white. The pictures on the secret account showed a side of Liam she'd never seen: rebellious, angsty, and surrounded by a group of friends she didn't recognize. Her throat tightened; a sudden, sharp ache settled in her chest.

She went to the sink, splashing cold water on her face. The reflection staring back at her looked unfamiliar. Had she failed as a parent? Had she been too focused on her own life to notice the changes in her son? She felt a profound sense of loss, as though something precious had been irrevocably broken.

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