upset - Story 160974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in the inbox, mocking her. *Subject: Garden Proposal.* The words swam before her eyes. It was from the new neighbors, the ones with the relentlessly cheerful children and the gleaming SUV. They wanted to plant a garden, a shared garden, right next to her carefully cultivated herb bed.

She felt a tremor run through her. Her fingers clenched into fists. She reread the message, each word a provocation. “We were hoping…” “It would be a wonderful opportunity…”

She shut her laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in the silent room. She needed air. The thought of their intrusive plants, their constant presence, their… *sharing*… made her want to run.

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