upset - Story 160590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band on stage had just kicked off their set. It took him a moment, but then he recognised the intro. His song, but… different. This version was faster, louder, heavier. And, the singer, his voice was all wrong.

He felt his temples throb. This wasn't how he envisioned it. He felt like something that was once so familiar had become a complete stranger. The song that once belonged to him had been transformed, twisted into something he didn't like.

He felt suffocated. He turned to leave, and as he pushed through the crowded venue, he could still hear the amplified sounds of his soul, being played by someone else.

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