distressed - Story 32221 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air hung thick and heavy, dust motes dancing in the single shaft of sunlight. Sarah coughed, pulling the box labeled "Sarah's School Days" from the mountain of forgotten things. A sob caught in her throat. She hadn't been expecting this.

She pried the lid open, the musty smell of time and paper washing over her. Inside, neatly stacked, were every single essay, every math quiz, every single art project she'd ever created. Her stomach lurched. Why?

Her fingers trembled as she picked up a crudely drawn crayon portrait of a cat from kindergarten. She couldn't believe this was real. A headache started behind her eyes. Why had her mother done this? This felt… invasive.

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