distressed - Story 32098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ringing phone jolted Emily. Her hand trembled as she answered, the receiver cold against her ear. It was her old boss, confirming her termination. Her stomach lurched.

She hung up, her face draining of color. She felt the familiar panic rising, a cold wave washing over her. She buried her face in her hands, trying to breathe, trying to find some anchor in the swirling chaos of her life.

She moved quickly to her bedroom, slamming the door. The familiar surroundings were no comfort, only amplifying the crushing weight of her failure. Every shadow seemed to mock 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