distressed - Story 32199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat on the edge of the bed, the letter crumpled in his hand. His gaze drifted to the window, the world outside a blur. Mr. Thompson. He hadn't thought of him in decades. Then his mind flashed back to the day he was sent to the principal's office and that harsh reprimand. His breath hitched.

He imagined his daughter, Olivia, facing the same man, the same judgment. His stomach churned. He felt the familiar weight of helplessness.

He rose and slowly walked downstairs. He called the school, his voice cracking slightly.

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