distressed - Story 32107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash in her mouth. She pushed the cup away, unable to manage another sip. The office felt like a cage, each cubicle a prison cell, and she was the prisoner. It was the day she'd been dreading.

"Alright, Liam, let's start with the customer database," Sophia said, her voice sounding thin and reedy. She gestured towards the computer screen.

Liam, the eager young man who was to take her job, seemed to understand everything instantly. Sophia felt a wave of resentment, then guilt, washing over her. She gripped her pen so tightly that her knuckles were white.

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