upset - Story 160968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was tucked inside his wallet, a secret he'd carefully guarded. "Open a restaurant." "Write a book." "Be remembered." She read them with a growing sense of dread. Their shared dreams felt hollow now, replaced by an unfamiliar sting.

She slowly placed the list back inside the wallet, then tossed it onto the table. The image of the life they had built together was fractured, broken.

She walked towards the door, the floorboards creaking under her weight. She needed air, a space to breathe, a place to think. The front door slammed shut 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