upset - Story 160769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach twisted, and a metallic taste filled her mouth. The apple tree, a fragile sapling she’d nurtured through harsh winters, reduced to a stump. Anger, sharp and sudden, flared within her, but was swiftly followed by a profound sense of disappointment.

She kicked at the pile of sawdust, sending it scattering. Her vision blurred, and she blinked rapidly, trying to clear the mist from her eyes. The space felt desolate, bereft of something essential. Her body felt heavy, and she felt the need to sit down.

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