upset - Story 160607 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old photographs, brittle with age, cracked under her touch. The story of her parents' perfect romance was a carefully constructed fiction, a gilded cage. She saw her mother's eyes, wide with a fear she hadn't known existed.

Her father was shown in a heated argument. The woman beside him in the photo, was most certainly not her mother. He felt a sharp, unexpected pang in his chest. She walked away from the photographs, and started pacing.

“It can’t be…” she said softly, her voice barely above a whisper. Her throat constricted.

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