upset - Story 160248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital room felt suffocating. The air was thick with the scent of antiseptic, a smell that now made her feel nauseous. She stared at the ceiling, the sterile white a stark contrast to the turmoil within her. Every time she breathed, she felt a constricting sensation in her chest.

"How could this happen?" she whispered, her voice barely audible. A wave of vulnerability threatened to overwhelm her. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the sterile silence that seemed to amplify the internal chaos. She felt the tears now, silently rolling down her cheeks.

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