distressed - Story 32040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"They got it all wrong," he muttered to the cat, stroking the feline's fur as he tried to calm himself. The cat purred. He stood up and started walking. He was no longer thinking, he was moving. The book, *Arthur Finch: A Life Reclaimed*, was on the counter, but he had lost the will to look at it. He moved toward the door. The sun was going down, and he knew it was a long walk ahead. He slammed the door, the sound echoing in his empty house.

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