distressed - Story 32165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of silverware grated on Evelyn’s nerves. Across the room, bathed in the warm glow of the chandeliers, was Mark. She felt a knot tighten in her chest, a physical manifestation of everything she had tried so hard to bury. She fiddled with the beaded strap of her dress, the fabric suddenly feeling itchy and restrictive.

Her cheeks flushed, a fire igniting inside her. She wanted to disappear. She wanted to scream. She wanted to run. Instead, she plastered on a smile and attempted to engage in a conversation with the bridesmaid on her right.

She felt his gaze on her, and despite her best efforts to ignore him, she felt as if someone was watching her.

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