A pounding headache started behind Amy's eyes as she closed the file. The "successful entrepreneur" she’d been dating, David, was actually a clerk. She had trusted him, confided in him. Now, she felt a burning sensation in her stomach. She pictured all the times she'd gushed about him to her friends. The words felt hollow now. She stared at her reflection in the darkened computer screen, and hated the person staring back. She closed her eyes.

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
πŸ˜–0.285
😰0.276
Suppressed:
de-0.457
la-0.349
:)-0.239
B-0.232
happy-0.229