distressed - Story 32269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty weight room felt colder than usual. She wandered over to a bench, her feet dragging, and sank down onto it. The equipment, once a source of strength and accomplishment, now seemed to bear silent witness to her disappointment. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the image of the roster, the stark absence of her name. The metallic scent of iron and sweat hung heavy in the air, a reminder of what she had lost.

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