upset - Story 160840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner she’d painstakingly prepared sat untouched on the table. The aroma of roasted chicken, usually so inviting, now only felt irritating. A dull ache throbbed in her temples, and her stomach twisted with anxiety. He had sworn they were struggling. She walked aimlessly around the apartment, tracing the outline of her wedding ring, a hollow feeling echoing in her chest. The beautiful life they built felt tainted, like something she'd thought was real, now revealed as fake.

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