distressed - Story 32336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the menu, the colorful illustrations of his favorite dishes mocking him. He’d come here every Friday for the past ten years. He ran a hand over his face, feeling the stubble prickle against his skin. The air in the restaurant felt thick, heavy. He couldn't look at the cheerful staff, their usual banter now grating on his nerves. He felt a knot forming in his throat, making it difficult to swallow.

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