distressed - Story 32169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea washed over Sam as he saw Rachel. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him feeling lightheaded. He grabbed the back of the chair to steady himself, his knuckles turning white. He thought he was fine, he thought he was over it, but seeing her, laughing and radiant, destroyed all the progress he'd made.

He felt as though he was a marionette, his body controlled by unseen strings. He was trapped, surrounded by well-wishers and forced smiles. He mumbled an excuse to the person beside him and moved towards the bar, needing something, anything, to dull the ache.

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