distressed - Story 32176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I pulled my car over to the side of the road, the engine idling. The voice of my "investor" friend, Robert, on the phone still rang in my ears. He confessed that his “hedge fund” was a joke – a scam, even. He was, in fact, unemployed and living off of his savings. My palms were sweating, and my chest felt tight. I'd sunk everything I had into his supposed “sure thing.” The trees blurred through my tear-filled eyes, and I knew I couldn’t move.

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