distressed - Story 32263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"But... but I thought I was good enough," Sarah stammered, her voice catching in her throat. The coach, a stern figure, merely offered a tight-lipped smile and a pat on the shoulder. Her stomach lurched. The words felt hollow, insufficient to express the turmoil churning inside her. She felt like she was trapped in a glass box. Outside, the world continued on, oblivious to the monumental event that had just occurred for her. Her legs felt weak. She turned and walked away, not meeting anyone's gaze.

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