upset - Story 160830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blueprints, the familiar lines now twisted into a mockery of his ambition. The rival company’s design was so similar, so identical, that his insides churned. He didn't know what to do.

He’d been so close to securing the contract, to finally proving himself. Now, the project, his meticulously crafted vision, felt tainted. His shoulders slumped.

He threw the blueprints onto the table, the paper scattering in the breeze from the open window. His chest felt heavy, and his breath came in short, shallow gasps.

He closed his eyes, and it felt like the weight of the world pressed down on him.

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