The flickering departure board mocked Amelia with its relentless updates. "Delayed. Delayed. Delayed." Her hands clenched into fists, knuckles white against the worn leather of her carry-on. Her sister's wedding, a moment she'd dreamt of for years, was slipping away. She paced the sterile airport corridor, the rhythmic thud of her heels a frantic drumbeat against the linoleum. Every announcement felt like another nail in the coffin of her hopes.

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
worse0.291
😖0.285
😰0.276
Suppressed:
de-0.457
la-0.349
:)-0.239
B-0.232
happy-0.229