distressed - Story 32010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been sleeping well since he saw the photo. His minimalist landscape painting, meant to evoke feelings of calm, now adorned someone’s ankle. It was a violation, he thought.

He sat at his desk, staring blankly at the canvas before him. The brush felt heavy in his hand, the paints seemed dull, lifeless. He tossed it aside, the gesture filled with frustration.

He couldn't create. The fire had been extinguished. He had nothing left.

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