upset - Story 160627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home felt longer than usual. Emma clutched her phone, her knuckles white. Mr. Garcia, her Spanish teacher, was now connected to her on Snapchat. She'd posted a goofy selfie with a filter and a caption in broken Spanish, which she thought was hilarious at the time. Now she felt stupid.

She stared out the window, the passing scenery blurring. She felt a burning sensation in her eyes, though no tears fell. The thought of him seeing her unfiltered, the real her, filled her with a sense of unease.

She picked at the edge of her phone case, her mind racing. The world seemed overly loud and bright.

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