upset - Story 160917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

*Would it be possible to discuss the removal of that cedar? I'm planning a new pool.* The polite words of the email, from Ms. Rodriguez, felt like a slap in the face. She hadn’t even realized the email had been sent. The words made her stomach churn.

She sat at her desk, unable to focus on the work in front of her. The cedar, a stately giant, had stood guard over her property for decades. It filtered the air, provided a home for birds, and offered her a sense of peace.

She closed her eyes, imagining the empty space. Her chest felt constricted, as though something was lodged there, preventing her from taking a full breath. She leaned back in her chair and just felt the anger.

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