distressed - Story 32056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the display, the world around him blurring. The pawn shop’s window reflected his own vacant expression. He recognized the intricate gold band with the pearl at its center – his grandmother's ring. It was a tangible piece of her, now separated from him by circumstance, by loss, by… he couldn’t even name it. It was too much to bear. A wave of nausea washed over him.

He stepped inside. The bell above the door clanged, a sound that seemed to echo in the hollow spaces of his chest. The shopkeeper, a woman with a bored air, looked up from a newspaper. "Whatcha want?" she mumbled.

He pointed a trembling finger at the ring. "That one," he whispered, his voice catching. "My grandmother's."

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