upset - Story 160739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit Ben like a brick. His best friend, Sam, had accepted a position in Colorado, and Ben could not see past the fact that they would be separated by more than 1,000 miles. He was still trying to grasp the situation.

He slammed his fist on the table, the sound echoing through the empty apartment. He stood, pacing the small living room. The familiar space suddenly felt cramped and suffocating.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to rage. He wanted Sam to tell him it was all a joke.

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