distressed - Story 32079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold kitchen tiles offered no comfort to Jessica. The message from "BookNerd85" - "Just saw you at the park, by the big oak. Fancy a chat?" - had left her feeling unbalanced. She had revealed her most private thoughts and fears.

She clutched her stomach. The feeling was a strange, persistent pressure. She replayed conversations in her mind, analyzing every word, every emoji. She felt nauseous. She looked at herself in the mirror and felt a surge of self-loathing.

She had to get out, she thought, to find some air, some space. Then, her phone chimed with another message. It was him. She closed her eyes.

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