distressed - Story 32068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No… no, no, no,” Amelia repeated, the words a desperate whisper. Her breath hitched in her throat. The denial was a physical blow, a punch to the gut. The world warped and shimmered.

She gripped her chair, knuckles white, as if she were about to lose her balance. Her stomach churned. The room spun around her.

She let go of the chair, pacing the small space of her room. The implications were immense, like a vast chasm opening before her. She had no idea what to do.

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