distressed - Story 32120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're the new goalie," the coach had announced, his voice devoid of emotion. Jake, who’d been a forward, just nodded, his face unreadable. But inside, everything was churning.

He stood in the net, the goalposts looming, feeling exposed and vulnerable. He was used to the thrill of scoring, the glory of the attack. This was different. This was about stopping, reacting.

He pictured the shots coming, the pressure, the responsibility. His breath hitched in his throat. His hands felt clammy. He closed his eyes, then opened them, staring at the approaching ball.

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