distressed - Story 32105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her jaw ached, a consequence of clenching her teeth. The training session with Chloe, her replacement, was only half an hour in, and everything felt wrong. The air was thick and heavy, and she couldn't seem to get a proper breath. Her heart rate was elevated.

"So, the first thing is to..." Maria began, her voice trembling slightly. She cleared her throat and tried again, forcing a false calm.

Chloe, so young and brimming with confidence, nodded eagerly. Each nod felt like a punch to Maria's gut. The thought of all the years she had invested, the triumphs and the setbacks, now being reduced to this.

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