distressed - Story 32202 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank space where his pickup truck had been, his jaw clenched so tightly it ached. His wife’s disapproving words echoed in his head, “You’ll never get anywhere if you keep taking shortcuts.” Now this. He kicked a loose pebble across the gravel driveway, watching it disappear into the overgrown weeds. A bead of sweat trickled down his temple, despite the cool autumn air. He had a job interview in an hour, and this was not how he wanted to start the day.

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