distressed - Story 32009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone slipped from her grasp, crashing onto the hardwood floor. She stared at the screen, her heart drumming against her ribs. Her delicate floral design, painstakingly crafted, was permanently marked on someone’s skin.

She sank to the floor, her back against the cool wall. The air felt heavy, and the silence was deafening. Her vision blurred, and a strange pressure built behind her eyes.

She felt utterly depleted, the joy sucked out of her. She was empty.

Emotion: distressed

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.39 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.52

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion distressed. 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 distressed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the distressed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the distressed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.304
`😞`	0.296
`worse`	0.291
`😖`	0.285
`😰`	0.276

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.457
`la`	-0.349
`:)`	-0.239
`B`	-0.232
`happy`	-0.229