upset - Story 160624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark threw his phone onto his desk with a frustrated grunt. Mr. Evans, his physics teacher, was now among his Instagram followers. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He'd been posting about his band, and some of the song lyrics were, shall we say, not exactly G-rated.

He felt a flush creep up his neck. What if Mr. Evans didn't like his music? What if he thought Mark was a terrible student? He’d been trying so hard in physics.

The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. He felt a desperate urge to erase everything, to disappear. He didn't want the teacher knowing about his side hustle.

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