distressed - Story 32136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark felt the blood drain from his face as he read the email. A wave of dizziness washed over him. The world seemed to spin, the text blurring before his eyes. His throat tightened, making it difficult to swallow.

He thought back to the incident, trying to remember the exact wording, the sources he’d used. The details were hazy, lost in the fog of exhaustion and stress. The feeling of utter helplessness threatened to overwhelm him. He needed to find a way out of this.

He grabbed his phone, his hands shaking so hard that he nearly dropped it. He needed to talk to someone, anyone, to make sense of the tangled mess. He felt a sharp jab in his chest, a pain that mimicked the emotional torment.

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