upset - Story 160720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the notice, a cold, hard knot forming in his gut. His breath hitched in his chest, making it difficult to breathe. He wanted to scream, to smash something, anything to alleviate the tightness in his chest. His hands trembled so violently he could hardly grasp the piece of paper. He slumped into the worn armchair, his gaze fixed on the peeling paint on the opposite wall, the only object he could bear to look at.

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