upset - Story 160767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant green, the sheltering branches, the gentle sway in the breeze – all were memories now. She felt a wave of dizziness sweep over her as she took in the scene. The world around her seemed to blur. She couldn't understand why this was affecting her so.

Her lower lip trembled, and she quickly bit down on it, struggling to maintain control. It was just a tree, she told herself, but the words felt hollow and inadequate. She wanted to scream. She wanted to run.

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