upset - Story 160946 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found it hidden in the attic, nestled amongst boxes of old photographs. The novel, written by his wife, Emily, portrayed him as a weak and ineffectual man, a mere shadow of his true self. He felt a powerful, visceral surge of anger. He clenched his fists, knuckles turning white.

He slammed the attic door shut, the sound a sharp, decisive crack. He needed space, desperately. He needed to get away.

He grabbed his keys and jacket, the weight of the moment pressing down on him. He didn't want to see her, not yet.

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