distressed - Story 32358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dust swirled around him as he pushed open the attic door. The stale air hit him like a physical blow. He felt his pulse quicken, a subtle tremor running through his frame. This was going to be difficult.

A large canvas, covered in a sheet, lay on the floor. He hesitated, his hand hovering over the fabric. The house was supposed to be a refuge, a sanctuary. He felt a profound sense of wrongness.

He slowly pulled off the sheet. A portrait, a face staring back at him. He gasped. It was like looking into a mirror. He felt… disoriented. He backed away, needing air.

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