upset - Story 160683 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ceramic studio felt cold, the air thick with the dust of dried clay. Maya ran her fingers over the smooth surface of a half-finished vase, her knuckles white. Clay had always been her escape, her therapy. Now, her son, Ethan, practically lived here. Ethan was a natural.

He’d recently won a local art show, taking home first prize. Maya hadn’t even gotten a mention.

"Mom," Ethan said, a gentle note to his voice, "can you show me how you got that glaze effect on the last piece?"

She simply shook her head, unable to speak, and went back to smoothing the clay, her movements agitated.

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