upset - Story 160760 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the small, cluttered attic felt thick with dust and unspoken grievances. Amelia read the letter, the words blurring through her tears. The apology was inadequate, insufficient. She felt a hollowness spread through her, a void that no amount of time had filled. A fresh wave of the feeling she thought she had buried crashed over her.

She squeezed her eyes shut, fighting the urge to sob. The attic felt like a cage, the old things surrounding her like accusing ghosts. She pushed the letter away, as though it were a venomous snake, and rested her head on her knees, desperately seeking some peace. The silence pressed in on her, heavy and suffocating.

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