distressed - Story 32406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the length of the living room, the Persian rug feeling uneven beneath his feet. The silence in the house was a palpable thing, a pressure that squeezed at his insides. The estate agent had said it was a 'charming fixer-upper'. Charming? It felt like a prison.

His sister, Olivia, was upstairs, already tearing into boxes. He could hear the faint sounds of her moving around. He ran a hand through his hair, unable to find comfort. He could barely focus; his mind was a storm of anxious thoughts. He needed to get out, he needed to leave, he needed…something.

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