I hated attics. Always had. The smell, the isolation… everything. Today, however, I had no choice. I had to find those old holiday decorations.

A small, wooden box sat tucked away in a corner. I opened it. Inside, I found a collection of handwritten letters. Personal, intimate. I shouldn't have read them, but I couldn't stop myself.

The words, the confessions, the hidden heartbreaks… they settled in my chest like a weight. I felt a pressure. I knew this house now held more than just dust and memories. It held… secrets. I wanted to scream, to run.

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
worse0.291
😖0.285
😰0.276
Suppressed:
de-0.457
la-0.349
:)-0.239
B-0.232
happy-0.229