upset - Story 160938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the hospital room was sterile, the silence punctuated by the beeping of machines. The flowers, a riot of colors, felt like a mockery of the situation. Inside, the world was dim.

Sarah didn’t recognize the flowers. They weren't from family. From friends. She stared at them, confused. They were a bright spot in the otherwise dull scene. Why would someone send them?

She felt a hollowness in her chest. She reached out, running a hand over the velvety petals, and the unspoken words filled the silence. Her gaze dropped. She bit her lip.

The door creaked open, and a nurse entered.

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