upset - Story 160730 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slowly unfolded the letter, the paper crackling in the otherwise silent room. His chest felt constricted, making it difficult to breathe. This was it: his mother’s draft letter. The letter of resignation, which she’d never sent.

The words detailed her profound dissatisfaction with her life. Her words described a desire for a different life, a life far removed from her children and her marriage. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his heart.

He felt a cold wave wash over him. He hated this letter. It was everything he’d always feared. He wanted to rip it up, to erase it, to pretend it never existed. He looked at his hands and clenched them into fists, unable to look at it any longer.

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