upset - Story 160609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of dizziness washed over him as he stared at the pictures. The family's carefully curated narrative of her great-aunt, the brilliant scientist, was being shattered. The woman in the photos, in her lab, was smiling with a man who was not her husband.

She saw the woman, her eyes filled with a longing he did not understand. He felt a cold dread begin to coil in his stomach. He felt a tremor run through his hands. He grabbed a glass of water, and started gulping it down.

"This can't be real," he said, his voice flat. He felt a knot in his stomach.

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