upset - Story 160908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the classroom felt heavy, stifling. John sat at his desk, his gaze fixed on the teacher, but his mind was a million miles away. His jaw clenched. He was losing everything. All the hard work, the late nights, the aspirations, all gone. He felt the blood pounding in his ears. His hands were curled into fists. He had to clench and unclench his hands to try and get a grip.

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