The vibrant colors of the art gallery swam before Leo's eyes. He stood, frozen, in front of a painting he'd proudly told everyone his friend, Alex, had created. Now, he knew. Alex didn’t create any of the art that he had claimed credit for. He learned the truth a few hours earlier, when the artist, the real artist, had walked into his office. He felt a shiver run down his spine, a coldness spreading through him. He hadn't known what to do with himself. He turned his back to the artwork and stepped out into the bright sunshine.

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
worse0.291
😖0.285
😰0.276
Suppressed:
de-0.457
la-0.349
:)-0.239
B-0.232
happy-0.229