distressed - Story 32217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter rattled in Leo's trembling hands. It detailed their trip to the amusement park. From Maria's perspective, it was a day of exhilarating rides and shared amusement. The letter was filled with exclamation points. For Leo, it was a day of long lines, motion sickness, and Maria's constant demands to go on the most frightening rides. His breath caught in his throat. He crumpled the letter slowly, then tossed it in the garbage. He sank into his armchair, feeling a deep weariness creep over him.

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