distressed - Story 32149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He arrived at the studio, eager to show his teacher, Mr. Jones, his latest sketches. The lock was changed. There was a handwritten sign taped to the door: “Closed. Permanently.” James stood there, frozen. His vision swam. He clutched the sketchbook to his chest. He felt betrayed. He felt abandoned. He felt the sting of tears. He wanted to scream at the empty space where his mentor used to stand. He wanted answers. He wanted to turn back time. He crumpled to the ground, helpless.

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