The bustling terminal faded into a blur. My vision swam. My best friendโ€™s surprise birthday party, a celebration I'd meticulously planned, was out of reach. I slumped against the cold wall, feeling the tears well up. A sob escaped, a fragile sound lost in the cacophony of the airport. I was failing everyone.

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:
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.304
๐Ÿ˜ž0.296
worse0.291
๐Ÿ˜–0.285
๐Ÿ˜ฐ0.276
Suppressed:
de-0.457
la-0.349
:)-0.239
B-0.232
happy-0.229