distressed - Story 32188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news seemed to knock the breath right out of Ben. He'd stumbled upon the email exchanges on his wife, Jessica's, laptop. Intimate, suggestive, filled with coded language. He went through each one again and again, looking for a way out, a misunderstanding, a mistake. There wasn't one.

He felt the world spin. His stomach lurched, and he stumbled backward, sinking into the sofa. Everything around him, the familiar furniture, the photos on the wall, seemed to mock him, reminding him of all they had shared. He couldn't speak, he couldn't move.

He sat there for hours, the emails still open on the screen, a monument to their broken trust.

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