upset - Story 160682 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the garage, the familiar scent of oil and metal doing nothing to soothe him. His hands clenched and unclenched as he examined the disassembled engine. Mark had lovingly restored classic cars since he was a teenager. It was his sanctuary. Now, his son, Leo, who'd once shown zero interest, was consumed by the hobby. Leo wanted to take over.

"Dad, I think the carburetor needs to be re-jetted," Leo said, his voice brimming with enthusiasm.

Mark turned away, his jaw tight. "I'm going to take a walk." He grabbed his coat, the weight of the moment pressing down on him.

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