upset - Story 160844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, handwritten note, slipped under her door, felt like a personal attack. "Quiet, please." She felt a flush creep up her neck. Her fingers twitched. She stared at the offending message, a knot forming in her stomach. She ripped it into tiny pieces, the fragments falling like confetti on her floor. She started at the kitchen, and, without thinking, started violently scrubbing the already clean countertops, as if she could scrub away the feeling of inadequacy.

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