distressed - Story 32110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He woke up with a start, heart hammering against his ribs. The day felt already heavy. He was supposed to be showing this kid everything, all that he learned over the years.

“Right, so here’s how we deal with the invoices,” he told the new guy, a fresh-faced kid named Alex. His voice cracked, and he swallowed hard.

The office felt stuffy, the air thick with unspoken words. He felt a creeping heat spreading across his face. Alex seemed so young, so full of potential, a constant reminder of everything he was about to lose.

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