upset - Story 160427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation felt like a physical blow. She dropped it on the table, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet room. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the images that flooded her mind. She could hear the voices, the laughter, the whispers. She could almost *feel* the heat of the spotlight.

She felt a burning sensation in her throat. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles turning white. She wanted to run, to disappear, to hide from the judgment she knew awaited her. The past was a heavy cloak, and she was sure everyone would notice.

She forced herself to open her eyes, but the room swam. She felt a growing sense of panic, the world narrowing around her. She was unable to swallow, and her breath hitched in her chest. She needed to escape.

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