distressed - Story 32150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Where is she?" Maria demanded, her voice tight with suppressed emotion. The other nurses just averted their eyes. Dr. Lee, her surgical mentor, her friend, was absent. No warning, no explanation, just a complete disappearance. Maria went to the empty operating room. The sterile environment felt suddenly alien, the metal instruments reflecting her own distraught expression back at her. Her hands felt clumsy, her breath shallow. She sank into a chair, the room spinning around her. All she could think was, "Why?"

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