upset - Story 160886 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the invitation in his hand, the embossed lettering a stark contrast to his own handwritten grocery list. The party next door was a celebration of their new mansion, a house he could only dream of owning. His neighbor, the unassuming Mr. Davies, was suddenly revealed to be ridiculously, obscenely wealthy.

His hand clenched into a fist. He had spent the morning applying for a second job, anything to keep his family afloat. The constant struggle, the endless worry about bills, and the sheer audacity of it all...

He tore the invitation in half. The paper ripped loudly, the sound echoing the bitterness that filled his soul. He threw the pieces into the trash, then turned away, unable to bear the weight of his own circumstance.

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