distressed - Story 32198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the classroom felt heavy, close. Lisa gripped her purse so tight her knuckles ached. Mr. Harrison. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She couldn't breathe.

She remembered her own struggles with math. The way Mr. Harrison's voice would slice through the classroom. She pictured her daughter, Lily, who loved math, being crushed by his methods.

Her eyes stung, and she blinked rapidly. She imagined Lily coming home, her usual joy gone. The thought was unbearable. She had to talk to someone.

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