upset - Story 160608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun seemed too bright, the world too loud. The story of her uncle, the successful businessman, the self-made man, was a myth. The truth, in the form of these photographs, was far more complex and troubling.

He found the pictures of her uncle, drunk and arguing with another man, after a gambling loss. The image of his empty eyes, shocked her. She couldn't breathe.

She threw herself on the couch, pulling the throw pillows over her head, as if to muffle the cacophony of her thoughts. The room spun.

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