He drove, aimlessly, the radio turned off, the silence amplifying the churning inside. *Robert Miller: The Man Who Made His Mark*. He pulled over to the side of the road, the engine sputtering to a halt. The book lay on the passenger seat, mocking him. He leaned his forehead against the steering wheel, the cool metal a small comfort against the heat of his rising anger. The world tilted. He felt the tears well in his eyes, hot and stinging. He was nothing like the person in that book. He was just Robert Miller.

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