The sun beat down on the cobblestone streets. She felt the warmth on her skin, but it didn't reach her. The ice cream cone in her hand began to melt, sticky sweetness dripping down her fingers. Standing a few yards away, she saw him. The man she'd been planning a future with, arm-in-arm with another woman. They laughed, and she felt a sharp pain in her chest. Her breath caught in her throat. She looked at the ice cream she was holding and tossed it into a bin.

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