distressed - Story 32140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be happening," muttered Michael under his breath, his voice barely audible. The email on his laptop screen felt like a physical weight, pressing down on him. His breath came in shallow, rapid gasps.

He had always been a diligent student. The accusation felt like a violation. He leaned back in his chair, trying to process the information, but his mind was a whirlpool of conflicting thoughts and emotions.

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He felt a sharp, burning sensation in his eyes, a familiar sign of impending tears. He felt completely overwhelmed, trapped in a situation he didn't know how to navigate.

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