distressed - Story 32210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned against the brick of the house, his legs suddenly feeling weak. A low groan escaped him. The car was gone, a phantom limb. He replayed the morning in his head, searching for some detail he missed, some hint of this looming disaster. The world seemed to shrink, closing in around him, the air thick with a sense of impending doom. He felt the sting of tears behind his eyes.

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