Sarah slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in her sparsely furnished apartment. A wave of nausea rolled through her, leaving her suddenly clammy. The book cover, a picture of her as a child clutching a chipped teacup, seemed to mock her from the coffee table. *Sarah Jones: A Life Unveiled*. She didn't want it unveiled. She hadn't authorized any of this. The audacity of it, to pry into her life, to invent narratives based on who knew what – it was a violation. Her hands trembled as she reached for her phone, dialing her lawyer’s number with fumbling fingers.

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
worse0.291
πŸ˜–0.285
😰0.276
Suppressed:
de-0.457
la-0.349
:)-0.239
B-0.232
happy-0.229