distressed - Story 32125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the terminal felt thick, suffocating. My palms were slick with sweat, and I kept wiping them on my jeans. My brother’s graduation, the culmination of years of hard work, was unfolding without me. I pictured the celebratory atmosphere, the pride on my parents' faces, and the ache in my chest intensified. I felt a wave of nausea sweep over me, a physical manifestation of my helplessness.

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