distressed - Story 32194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash. Amelia couldn't swallow. Mr. Davies. The same Mr. Davies who had made her feel so small in art class. She tapped her foot impatiently, the rhythm erratic.

She kept picturing her daughter, Chloe, trying to paint, the way she loved to create, and then she pictured Mr. Davies' criticisms. Her mind raced with possible scenarios, the worst-case scenarios. She imagined the slow erosion of Chloe’s confidence.

"Mom, are you okay?" Chloe asked, her brow furrowed. Amelia forced a smile, but her voice cracked. "Yes, honey. Just… a lot on my mind."

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