distressed - Story 32155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I can't," Emily whispered, pushing the plate of untouched food away. Dinner with her family, meant to be a distraction, had only amplified her unease. The casual chatter felt abrasive, the laughter a cruel reminder of her own internal chaos.

She excused herself from the table, her stomach churning with a mixture of fear and disappointment. She went to her room, shutting the door firmly behind her.

Her reflection in the mirror showed a stranger, a tense, hollow-eyed woman on the verge of cracking. She sank onto the bed, burying her face in the pillows to muffle a choked sob.

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