upset - Story 160687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the sewing machine was like a mocking chorus in the quiet house. Eleanor watched, unmoving, as her daughter, Penny, meticulously stitched a replica of a vintage gown. Eleanor sewed for years, her clothes a signature of style. Her friends had asked her to make them clothes. The hobby was hers.

Penny glanced up, her eyes bright with pride. “Almost finished, Mom! What do you think?”

Eleanor swallowed hard, her throat tight. “It’s… lovely.” The words were barely a whisper, a sound she herself couldn't stand to hear.

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