distressed - Story 32178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the cafe felt thick and heavy. I watched, numb, as the barista called out the name "Mr. Johnson." My friend, Michael, had been "Mr. Johnson," a "renowned author," for years. The barista handed him a coffee. Michael turned and saw me. His face crumpled. The books, the readings, the awards... all a charade. I felt a surge of anger, quickly followed by an overwhelming sense of sadness. The cafe's cheerful chatter grated on my nerves. I wanted to be anywhere but there.

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