The woman who’d written the book, *Eleanor Vance: A Life of Secrets*, was at his door. He gripped the doorframe, his knuckles white. Her smile was too bright, her eyes too eager. "I just wanted to get your thoughts," she chirped. He couldn't speak. He felt a surge of adrenaline, his heart hammering against his ribs. Thoughts swirled in his head; how she got his address, what she wanted. He just wanted her to leave. He took a shaky breath, finally managing a strangled, "Go away."

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
😖0.285
😰0.276
Suppressed:
de-0.457
la-0.349
:)-0.239
B-0.232
happy-0.229