distressed - Story 32013 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of roasting chicken, usually a source of comfort for Amelia, now made her stomach churn. Her grandfather, a staunch Catholic all his life, had announced he was converting to Islam. She stared at him across the dinner table, his usually jovial face now holding a quiet intensity she'd never witnessed.

Her fork hovered mid-air, forgotten. The cheerful wallpaper in the dining room swam before her eyes.

“Are you sure, Grandpa?” she asked, her throat constricted. The words felt inadequate, hollow. The carefully constructed world of Sunday mass and family traditions seemed threatened, undermined. A knot formed in her chest, making it difficult to breathe.

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