upset - Story 160678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a brief, dismissive email. Dr. Sharma. Gone. Maria felt her heart pound, a frantic drumbeat against her ribs. She threw her phone across the room, the impact a small, satisfying explosion of frustration.

She grabbed her coat and practically ran out of the building. The city, usually a source of energy, now felt oppressive, the buildings towering over her, mocking her smallness. She wanted to yell, to lash out at the world.

She walked and walked, wanting her feet to carry her far from the campus.

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