distressed - Story 32037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news anchor on TV was discussing the book. He watched, stunned. *Isabella Rossi: The Prodigal Daughter*. The image of the book cover flashed across the screen – his face, his life, on national television. His ears rang, a high-pitched whine that drowned out the anchor’s voice. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. The phone began to ring. He ignored it. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him feeling lightheaded and weak.

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