upset - Story 160615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to the retirement home was a silent battle against her own rising tension. The scenery blurred past, unnoticed. Amelia felt the familiar prickle behind her eyes, the insistent pressure building behind her forehead. This was for her father, of course, a momentous occasion. And yet, the thought of the party made her want to retreat into herself.

She took a deep, shuddering breath as she entered the venue. The sounds of laughter and the aroma of food assaulted her senses. She searched the crowd for her father, her gaze darting around the room, afraid and seeking. She hoped she could make it through the event without any cracks in her carefully constructed facade.

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