upset - Story 160585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared the morning commute playlist, and Ben slammed his hand on the dashboard. He’d been having a decent day, or at least a manageable one. Until *that* song started. It was his, he knew it. But the singer on the radio was… a pop star.

Ben’s knuckles were white as he gripped the steering wheel. The arrangement was all wrong. It was overproduced, drowning the melody in synthesizers and auto-tune. His heart raced, his breath becoming shallow. This wasn’t his song anymore.

He switched the channel, but the damage was done. The feeling lingered, a knot in his stomach. He drove in silence, the original song’s ghost still echoing in his head.

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