upset - Story 160663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confined space felt claustrophobic, the air growing thick and stale. Maya pressed her back against the cool metal wall, trying to create some distance between herself and the situation. The world had gone to pieces, everything was a mess, and now this was happening.

“This is just my luck,” she whispered, her voice barely audible.

Her hands were shaking as she pulled out her phone, only to find the signal nonexistent. A wave of frustration washed over her. She’d missed her daughter’s school play, a vital performance, because of work, and now, this. The elevator, the meeting, everything.

She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to contain the rising tide of feelings. Her stomach clenched, and a bitter taste filled her mouth. She wished she were anywhere else.

“Hey, are you alright?” David’s voice, full of concern, broke through her thoughts. "It's going to be okay." She just nodded, unable to meet his gaze.

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