distressed - Story 32173 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The champagne flute, half-full, felt like it weighed a ton in Chloe's grasp. Across the restaurant table, Emily was laughing, talking about a project she had supposedly led. The "CEO" of a burgeoning tech startup. Chloe knew better. She'd accidentally overheard Emily's mother talking on the phone. "Still at the library, sweetie?" the voice had chirped. A wave of heat washed over Chloe's face. She faked a smile, the muscles in her face aching. How could she have been so naive? She wanted to disappear.

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