upset - Story 160625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world spun slightly as Sarah watched the number of followers for her private account tick up. Mr. Rodriguez, her biology teacher, had somehow found her. She pressed her lips together, her chest tightening. The account was supposed to be a safe space, a place where she could share her thoughts and feelings without judgment.

She paced her room, the hardwood floor creaking under her steps. The privacy she’d carefully cultivated felt shattered. She quickly glanced through her previous posts to assess the damage. She didn't want him knowing about her anxieties.

She felt like she was trapped. She felt so many emotions she couldn't name.

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