distressed - Story 32365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's diagnosis hung heavy in the air, a silent weight on every thought. Her body felt like lead. She shuffled to the mailbox, each step a monumental effort. Inside, a single card. The stark white envelope mocked her. "Happy Birthday!" The message, in a familiar, yet distant hand, brought an unwelcome surge of emotion.

She felt a wave of nausea. The card slipped from her grasp and landed with a gentle thud on the floor. Everything seemed to fade as she felt herself sinking. She closed her eyes. It was a day she wanted to skip. A day to forget.

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