upset - Story 160672 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea crashed over David as Dr. Ramirez dropped the bomb. Leaving? After everything? He gripped the edge of the table, knuckles white. The words hung in the air, heavy and suffocating. He excused himself, mumbled something about needing air, and fled the office.

He found himself pacing in the university courtyard, the familiar brick and ivy suddenly alien. His vision blurred, and the world seemed to tilt. The carefully constructed foundations of his PhD, his future, were crumbling before his eyes. He stopped pacing and leaned heavily against a large oak.

He just wanted to scream.

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