upset - Story 160679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of profound disappointment settled over Ethan. The air in the lab felt thick, stagnant, as he read Dr. Reynolds's short announcement. He sat motionless, the email open on his screen. Every breath seemed a struggle. He closed his eyes.

He didn’t want to face this. He buried his face in his hands. The projects, the papers, all the work, felt utterly meaningless now. He pushed himself out of his chair. It was pointless to stay there.

He locked the door behind him and walked slowly home.

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