distressed - Story 32348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive back home was a silent battle with herself. The world appeared blurry, everything seemed unreal. The weight of loneliness felt unbearable.

A yard sale offered a momentary distraction, a chance to escape her own mind. She wandered amongst the discarded treasures, feeling a profound sense of disconnection. Her stomach churned.

And then she saw him. A familiar face, a soft, brown teddy bear, his nose slightly crooked. It was Barnaby. The name she had almost forgotten. A sharp, stinging sensation behind her eyes threatened to spill over. Her breath hitched. The world seemed to stop moving.

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