upset - Story 160692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the file folder shut, the snap echoing in the empty conference room. His shoulders slumped, and the air seemed to thicken around him. Every muscle in his body felt tense, coiled like a spring ready to release. He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging strands that had previously been perfectly in place.

The announcement hadn't even been five minutes ago, yet the sting of disappointment was already blooming in his chest, a deep ache. He hadn't expected to lose, but the reality of the situation was a heavy weight. He pictured his boss, beaming, shaking hands with the other guy.

He kicked a chair, letting out a wordless groan. He was so close.

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