distressed - Story 32407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The keys jangled in her hand, a discordant symphony of sound against the quiet. The sun was setting, casting long, eerie shadows across the overgrown lawn. She wanted to scream. She took a deep, shuddering breath, trying to steady herself.

She pushed open the door, the hinges protesting with a rusty groan. Inside, the house was a time capsule, filled with the echoes of a life now gone. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was too much. Her sister, Chloe, was bustling through the house, energetic and practical, but she was trapped.

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