upset - Story 160722 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara slammed the file cabinet shut, the metal echoing in the silent apartment. Her knuckles were white. Why did her mother have to keep everything? It was just a stupid letter. It was just a piece of paper. The damn thing was tucked inside a shoebox marked "Dreams."

She paced the length of the living room. The letter, a crumpled mess now, detailed her mother's dissatisfaction with her career as a nurse, a career she'd stayed in until she retired. It mentioned a desire to travel the world, to see things beyond the hospital walls.

Clara felt a knot tighten in her stomach. She’d always believed her mother had been happy. Always seen her radiant and full of life. The letter was a dark stain on that memory. This wasn't supposed to be real.

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