The world seemed to tilt on its axis as Maya read the email. The subject line, โ€œImportant News Regarding Casa Del Sol,โ€ had seemed innocuous enough a moment ago. Now, her vision blurred. She rubbed her eyes, as if that would somehow clear the words away. Her hand trembled as she reached for her water glass, but she couldn't bring herself to take a sip. The silence of her apartment amplified the pounding in her ears.

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:
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.304
๐Ÿ˜ž0.296
worse0.291
๐Ÿ˜–0.285
๐Ÿ˜ฐ0.276
Suppressed:
de-0.457
la-0.349
:)-0.239
B-0.232
happy-0.229