distressed - Story 32384 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the art gallery, mirroring the storm brewing inside Leo. Across the room, bathed in the soft glow of the overhead lights, he saw her. The other "her". She was chatting with Michael, the man Leo had been seeing. A man who had promised her everything. Leo’s vision blurred. The gallery, which had once felt sophisticated and exciting, now felt like a cage. He watched as Michael reached for her hand, their fingers intertwining. Leo's fists clenched so tightly his nails dug into his palms. He felt the world tilt precariously.

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