upset - Story 160977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived, a crisp white rectangle that promised trouble. Inside, the new homeowners, Mr. and Mrs. Davies, requested to use part of her land. For a communal garden. The audacity of it!

He reread the letter again, the paper feeling rough against his fingertips. His jaw clenched. Their polite words sounded like an invasion, a takeover.

He crumpled the letter in his hand, the paper crackling under the pressure. His chest felt heavy, as if a weight was pressing down. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the rising tide of… something.

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