upset - Story 160937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant orchids seemed to taunt her from the coffee table. She felt a prickling heat under her skin. She had been avoiding her phone all day. Each notification, each glance at the screen, a new wave of disappointment.

She reached out and roughly touched one of the petals, feeling the slick, waxy surface. It reminded her of his touch, his absence. Her chest felt constricted.

She stood up abruptly, pacing the room. The air felt thick, heavy, unbreathable. She needed to escape.

She grabbed her coat and walked out, slamming the door behind her.

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