upset - Story 160979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the doorway, blocking the sun from her face. His eyes were wide, and he couldn't help but blink against the bright light, but she could not look away. It was him, the one she barely knew, wanting *her* yard for a garden.

"It would be nice," he’d said, smiling. His smile did nothing to quell the fire that was suddenly spreading throughout her core. Her hands felt clammy.

He’d gone, but the impression of his presence remained, an unwanted stain. The door felt like a barrier now, a flimsy shield against the perceived onslaught.

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