distressed - Story 32065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis as David read the letter. His vision blurred, and he felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. This couldn't be happening. Not now. Not ever.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands as if trying to rip away the news. He slammed his fist against the desk, a muffled thud in the otherwise silent apartment. The action didn't help.

He closed his eyes, and a single tear escaped, tracing a path down his cheek. He felt a deep hollowness, a sense of loss that cut to the bone. He slumped in his chair. What now?

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