distressed - Story 32257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery blurred before her. She took a step back, the crisp air suddenly feeling thin and hard to breathe. The name above her article, hanging proudly on the gallery wall, wasn't hers. It was another's. The other artist who also had a contract with the gallery.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She gripped the edge of the nearest painting, her knuckles white. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to make the world stop spinning. She squeezed her eyes shut, taking a deep breath, trying to regain control. The gallery’s hushed reverence mocked her.

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