upset - Story 160673 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. Sarah stumbled back, her hand flying to her chest. Dr. Albright, her champion, her mentor, was moving on. A wave of heat flushed through her, making her palms sweat.

She retreated to the library, seeking refuge in the hushed quiet. The scent of old paper and leather usually calmed her, but today it only amplified the feeling of unease. She couldn’t concentrate, the words on the page blurring into an unintelligible jumble. She slammed the book shut, a sharp sound that startled the librarian.

The future seemed murky, a vast, daunting unknown.

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