upset - Story 160544 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left David feeling strangely off-kilter. He paced the length of his cramped apartment, his steps agitated and uneven. He'd stumbled upon his daughter's hidden profile while trying to troubleshoot a Wi-Fi issue. Now, a feeling of deep disquiet settled in the pit of his stomach.

He stared out the window, at the bustling city below, a stark contrast to the carefully curated reality on the screen. The vibrant, confident girl in the photos was a stranger to him. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't displayed in years. He felt a need to escape, to run, to find some way to make sense of what he’d seen.

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