upset - Story 160883 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another round, darling?" Elaine, the caterer, asked with a patronizing tone, holding out a silver tray of champagne flutes. Clara quickly declined, trying to avoid eye contact as she walked away. She had volunteered her time as a server in order to save up for her own car.

The champagne, the laughter, the sheer extravagance – it was all too much. She retreated towards the edge of the garden, where the artificial lawn gave way to the rough, untamed edge of the forest. The gentle rustle of the trees offered a small solace.

A wave of frustration washed over her, leaving her feeling brittle and thin. Every perfectly placed flower, every gleaming piece of silverware, was a reminder of what she didn’t have, what she was missing. The unfairness of it all was a bitter pill to swallow.

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