upset - Story 160976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what do you think?" The question hung in the air, a small, barbed thing. Maya stared at the woman across the fence, her smile brittle. It was her *space*. Her meticulously planned, carefully curated space.

"Well..." She swallowed, her throat suddenly dry. The proposed garden would be enormous, sprawling, a chaotic mess. It would block her sunlight.

She found herself fiddling with the chain on her gate, her fingers clumsy. She avoided eye contact. She couldn’t stand the thought of someone, anyone, messing with her peace.

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