upset - Story 160597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt like an assault on her senses. Clara moved through the crowd, trying to appear composed, but her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the backdrop of polite conversation. The rejection letter, a tiny poison dart, had punctured her bubble of hope.

She saw a painting she had admired previously, a landscape bathed in golden light. Now, the beauty felt hollow, a reminder of the joy she couldn’t access. She felt herself becoming invisible, a ghost in a world of thriving creativity.

She excused herself from a group of acquaintances, the forced smiles feeling like a heavy mask. She found a quiet corner and leaned against the wall, fighting the urge to flee.

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