distressed - Story 32220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the menu, unable to decide. The restaurant where they'd supposedly had their first date. According to Laura's retelling, it had been a charming evening, filled with laughter and instant connection. A thin sheen of sweat coated his forehead. His memory was of stilted conversation, an excruciating silence, and the distinct sense that she was completely uninterested in him. He could almost taste the awkwardness. He pushed the menu away and stood up, leaving the restaurant.

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