distressed - Story 32049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Could you turn that down?" Anya yelled, her voice barely audible above the din. The workmen on the other side of the fence either didn't hear her or chose to ignore her. She sank onto the patio chair, her chest tight.

The clatter of tools and the shouts from next door made it impossible to enjoy the afternoon sun. She’d planned a quiet afternoon with a book and a cup of tea. It was a ritual that always soothed her. Now she just felt overwhelmed.

She stared at the book in her lap, the words blurring before her eyes. The thought of the disruption stretching on indefinitely filled her with a sense of dread. The pleasant quiet of her existence was suddenly missing, and she didn't know how to recover it.

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