upset - Story 160616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank page, a desolate white expanse. The cursor blinked, a mocking metronome. David was supposed to be writing a tribute. A celebration of a career. A recognition of a life well-lived. He couldn't. The words caught in his throat, a tangled mess of emotions he couldn't even begin to unravel.

He tossed the pen aside, the plastic clattering against the desk. He felt the familiar weight of frustration pressing down on him. His hands fisted and unfisted. His father, always so distant, now expecting a display of affection. The thought made his skin crawl.

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