distressed - Story 32196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I need a drink," Laura muttered, heading straight for the cabinet. She clutched the note, the words on the paper seeming to vibrate in her hand: Mr. Blackwood. The man who had been her sixth-grade science teacher. She swallowed hard.

She poured a generous amount of whiskey into a glass. Her mind filled with flashes of the past, his biting sarcasm. She sat down heavily on the couch. He had made her feel utterly inadequate. She worried for her son, Ethan, and his bright enthusiasm.

She pictured Ethan, his face falling under Mr. Blackwood's gaze, his passion dimming. She closed her eyes for a moment, the image making her shudder.

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