distressed - Story 32116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're the new setter?" The words hung in the air, heavy and mocking. Chloe, a dominant outside hitter, was instructed to switch roles. She clenched her jaw, the air thick with disbelief.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her during the first practice. She kept replaying the coach’s words, her focus completely out of whack. She fumbled sets and her passes were wild. She knew she was messing up, and it was humiliating.

Her teammates’ curious glances burned. She felt exposed, vulnerable. Her arms ached, her muscles strained. This wasn't her. It couldn't be.

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