distressed - Story 32235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital clock glowed 3:17 AM. Sarah sat bolt upright in bed, heart hammering against her ribs. She had been dreaming – or rather, having a nightmare – and woke to a cold sweat. The diary, her diary, was online. It was out there for the whole world to see.

Her hands shook as she reached for her phone. The endless stream of notifications was a constant reminder of her exposure. Each notification was a blow, each comment a violation.

She pressed her palms against her temples, trying to contain the pressure building behind her eyes. Sleep felt like a distant dream, replaced by a relentless current of anxiety.

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