upset - Story 160806 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be real." Daniel's voice cracked. He sat hunched over the kitchen table, the DNA results a stark white square in front of him. His stomach churned. A half-sister. Another family, another life, another layer of lies. His world seemed to crumble around him.

He pushed his chair back, the legs scraping loudly against the tile floor. He walked to the window, the city lights below blurring through his tear-filled eyes. He couldn't breath.

He ran a hand through his hair, a frustrated gesture, and let out a strangled groan.

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