distressed - Story 32148 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last email from Director Chen was short. “I am stepping down. I have no further comments.” Elena stood there, staring at the message on her phone, her hands shaking. It was a complete shock. She had poured years into the program, following the director’s every instruction. Now, he was just gone. She felt as though the ground had fallen away beneath her feet. She leaned against the wall of the hospital wing, trying to take a deep breath, but the air felt thin and difficult to manage.

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