upset - Story 160019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched in her throat, her chest tight. The news from her son, Daniel, that he was joining the Church of Scientology had hit her like a physical blow. The words, the jargon, the unfamiliar concepts – it was all overwhelming. She felt adrift in a sea of confusion.

The room seemed to shrink, closing in on her. She felt a profound sense of helplessness. She paced, restless, each step an expression of her inner turmoil.

She grabbed her car keys, knowing she needed to get away, to find some space to breathe. The familiar comfort of the driver's seat offered no relief.

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