upset - Story 160845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pounding in his chest matched the rhythm of the music he’d been playing. Now, the music seemed to mock him. The neighbor's complaint, shoved through the mail slot, was a weapon. He turned off the music, the abrupt silence deafening. His apartment, once a sanctuary, now felt like a cage. He slumped onto the sofa, the plush cushions offering no comfort. He felt a prickling behind his eyes, a familiar sting.

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