upset - Story 160824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. The highway blurred past, indistinguishable from the swirling emotions inside him. He felt as though the very air was too tight in his lungs.

The conference. The announcement. The blatant, shameless plagiarism. It had all unraveled his carefully constructed world. It was a punch to the gut. The wind roared.

He punched the radio, killing the music. His vision swam. He was supposed to be the visionary. He felt the sting of tears prickling his eyes, and blinked them away fiercely.

He pulled over to the side of the road, the car vibrating as the engine idled. He leaned his head against the steering wheel.

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