The world felt muted, as if seen through a fog. Sarah traced the cover of the novel, the cover art now mocking her, the vibrant colors a stark contrast to the hollowness she felt. She should be excited – a signed first edition! Instead, a wave of nausea washed over her. Within the pages, nestled amongst the text, was a letter. Its elegant script, describing a passionate affair, felt like a deliberate intrusion. A cold sweat slicked her palms, the paper clinging uncomfortably to her skin as she slowly unfolded it.

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