distressed - Story 32387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bouquet of lilies felt heavy in her arms. They were his favorite flower. As Sarah waited outside the coffee shop, anticipation bubbling inside of her, she suddenly saw him walk out hand in hand with another woman. The shock hit her like a physical blow. The world became a slow-motion film. She could see his face, and his expression changed from happiness to shock when he saw her. The lilies slipped from her grasp and scattered on the sidewalk. She felt a profound sense of hollowness.

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