upset - Story 160876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the flyer, the glossy paper practically burning his fingers. His stomach lurched, and he felt a wave of nausea wash over him. His art, his vulnerabilities, were presented as commodities, a product for sale. It was a profound violation.

He found himself wandering the gallery, a stranger in a familiar landscape. His paintings, his intimate revelations, were being dissected by strangers, their opinions and critiques ringing like nails on a chalkboard. He felt stripped bare.

He was filled with a sense of helplessness. His hands trembled as he stared at the price tags beside each painting. He quickly turned and walked away, needing to put distance between himself and the scene.

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