distressed - Story 32197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the PTA meeting seemed to buzz louder than usual. James fidgeted, his leg bouncing. Ms. Rodriguez. He didn’t want to be here. He had a knot of anxiety that tightened with every passing second.

His old Spanish teacher. He couldn’t shake the memory of her cutting comments. He pictured her in front of his daughter, Sophia, and the thought made him feel sick. He pictured Sophia, her infectious energy, being stifled.

He felt the pressure rising in his chest. He needed to get out of here. He wanted to scream.

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