upset - Story 160971 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the watering can hitting the patio stones echoed in Amelia’s ears, each clang a hammer blow against her skull. Her neighbor, Mrs. Gable, had just asked. Asked if she could *use* a portion of Amelia's precious yard for a vegetable garden. Amelia felt a heat bloom in her chest, radiating outwards.

She gripped the handle tighter, knuckles white. The roses, her roses, would be less sunny. They wouldn't have the same space.

“Well, I… I need to think about it,” she managed, her voice tight, a constricted thing. Mrs. Gable beamed, a toothy, invasive grin. Amelia turned, the watering can sloshing violently. The gesture was rude, she knew. But she needed to escape.

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