upset - Story 160567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the decorations seemed to mock her. Sophia had painstakingly crafted every detail for her garden party, envisioning a day filled with laughter and sunlight. Then, the news spread like wildfire: Olivia's grand ball. The same day.

Sophia felt a strange fluttering in her stomach, a mixture of nausea and something sharper, more acidic. She wandered through the house, unable to find a comfortable position.

She stopped in front of the mirror, her reflection showing a stranger. She looked at her carefully chosen outfit, now somehow wrong, out of place. She started to undo the buttons, a single tear tracing a path down her cheek.

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