Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the chaotic drumming in Sarah’s chest. The tow truck was gone, the empty space where her ancient Volvo had been a gaping wound in the familiar landscape of her driveway. She slammed her fist on the kitchen counter, the cheap laminate groaning in protest. "No, no, no," she whispered, her voice cracking. The bills were already piling up, and now this. A cold wave of nausea washed over her.

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
worse0.291
πŸ˜–0.285
😰0.276
Suppressed:
de-0.457
la-0.349
:)-0.239
B-0.232
happy-0.229