upset - Story 160355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the attic invaded Amelia's senses, a smell that triggered a familiar tightness in her chest. She had hoped, truly hoped, that moving into a new house would bring peace. It wasn't working.

An old photo album lay open on a rickety table, its pages filled with images of people she didn't know, a past she wasn't a part of. She swiped it away with a hand, pushing it off the table.

“This is insane,” she whispered, her voice barely above a breath. The thought had crossed her mind that the previous owners had specifically left these things, to taunt her.

Amelia felt her breath quicken. She turned and fled the attic, slamming the door behind her.

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