distressed - Story 32397 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the letter, its delicate script a stark contrast to the roughness she felt within. The bookstore, a haven for her in the past, now seemed to mock her with its silent shelves. She’d hoped to lose herself in a romance novel. Instead, the letter – a declaration of unrequited love – had fallen out, mirroring the ache in her heart. She blinked back the sting of tears, the words blurring before her eyes, and the book slipped from her grasp and crashed to the floor.

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