upset - Story 160738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was almost as painful as the announcement. The two friends had known each other for twenty years. Now, Alex was moving to Germany.

There was a hollowness in Michael's chest. He felt like he had been hollowed out. He pushed the plate of half-eaten pasta away, suddenly unable to stomach anything.

He excused himself to the bathroom, needing to be alone. He stared at his reflection, a stranger. His eyes were wide, and his jaw was set.

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