upset - Story 160786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is ridiculous,” Claire muttered, her voice tight with disbelief. She slammed the laptop shut with a force that made the screen wobble. The house. The place where she’d grown up, where she’d felt safe.

She got up and started pacing. The walls of her apartment seemed to close in around her. The familiar objects she'd painstakingly collected felt like a mockery of her life. The pristine photographs of her own life paled in comparison to the picture of her childhood home.

She felt a stinging sensation behind her eyes. Her hands shook as she grabbed her keys, needing to escape the confines of her present. She walked out of the apartment, the door slamming behind her.

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