distressed - Story 32400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, no," she whispered, her voice barely audible above the din of the bustling antique shop. Her hands shook as she clutched the letter, the paper crinkling in her grasp. The book, a collection of old recipes, held more than just culinary secrets. The unearthed letter was a plea, a cry for help. The past felt like a trap, and she felt suffocated by it. She looked around, panicked, as if someone would discover her terrible secret.

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