distressed - Story 32267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant energy of the training ground seemed to mock Liam. Sunlight glinted off the sweat-slicked bodies of the players celebrating their selection. He leaned against a fence, the rough wood digging into his back, and watched them. A bitter taste coated his tongue. He had spent countless hours honing his skills, pushing himself to the breaking point, and yet... His chest felt tight, constricted. He clenched his fists, knuckles white. A single tear tracked down his cheek.

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