distressed - Story 32108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to work had been a blur. He parked the car, and for a moment, he just sat there, staring blankly ahead. He didn't want to go in. Today was the day to show the ropes.

"So, as you can see, the first thing we do is..." Robert began, but his voice trailed off, swallowed by the sudden lump in his throat.

His replacement, a young woman named Jessica, waited patiently, pen poised over her notepad. Robert focused on the intricate details of his desk, anything to avoid meeting her gaze. A coldness spread through his limbs.

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