distressed - Story 32109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A pounding headache started to build behind her eyes as she walked into the office. The new hire, Kevin, was waiting by the door. She forced a smile, knowing it probably looked strained.

“Okay, Kevin, let's run through the weekly schedule,” she said, her voice a little too high. She busied herself shuffling papers, avoiding eye contact.

Everything felt off-kilter, the rhythm of her life disrupted. The cheerful chatter of her colleagues grated on her nerves. *This is wrong*, she thought, the words echoing in her mind.

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