upset - Story 160659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was thick with emotion, each word a battle against the tightening in her throat. She had been at the end of the phone call. She stared at her phone. Her hand was shaking as she typed out a message: "I hate this." She paused, her finger hovering over the send button. She realized her mistake as she pressed send. She had meant to text her friend, but instead, it went to the person who caused her pain. She covered her mouth with her hand, then threw her phone on the floor.

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