distressed - Story 32264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room felt suddenly stifling, the stale air thick with disappointment. He slammed his locker door shut, the metallic clang echoing in the sudden silence. His heart hammered against his ribs like a trapped bird. The jersey, once a symbol of pride, now felt heavy, a burden. He ripped it off, throwing it to the floor. The cheers from the successful players in the adjacent room felt like a taunt. He buried his face in his hands, trying to stifle the sob that threatened to escape.

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