distressed - Story 32270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked the familiar route home, his head bowed. Each step felt heavy, like wading through molasses. The cheers and laughter from the field followed him. His bag, which usually felt light with the anticipation of practice, now weighed him down. He crossed the street, oblivious to the passing cars. The ordinary houses, the tidy gardens, the routine of everyday life – all seemed foreign, detached from the turmoil within him. He felt hollow, empty, and alone.

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