distressed - Story 32094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant creaking of the floorboards above his head kept Clara awake. She tossed and turned, the thin mattress offering no comfort. She couldn't shake the feeling of being watched, of being under constant scrutiny.

She hadn't realized how exposed she would feel. Every question, every offer of help, felt like an interrogation. She felt trapped. The scent of her mother's perfume, normally comforting, now felt like a suffocating cloud.

She sat up, the sheets twisted around her legs. The darkness held no solace. She wrapped her arms around herself, trying to find some semblance of calm, but the feeling of being overwhelmed continued to wash over 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