distressed - Story 32089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun felt cold on Karen's skin. The fence was going up, and she felt the creeping sensation of being hemmed in. Her property was her sanctuary. Now it felt like a prison.

She crossed her arms tightly, the gesture failing to offer any comfort. The sound of the hammering grated on her nerves, each blow amplifying her agitation. She could barely breathe.

She wanted to call her neighbor, to plead with him to stop, but the words wouldn't come. She retreated into her house, but the feeling followed her.

She slumped onto the sofa, a cold sweat breaking out on her forehead. The world seemed to be closing in around her.

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