distressed - Story 32413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows of the pawn shop, mirroring the frantic drumming of David's heart. He needed the money. His wife had left him, taking their kids. He’d sunk his savings into a new business that had failed utterly. The weight of his failures was crushing him.

He was rooting through a bin, searching for discarded parts when his hand brushed against something smooth. A wallet. He pulled it out, its surface slick with dampness. He found a small fortune inside – enough to pay off his most urgent debts, to maybe…start again.

His breath caught in his throat. He saw the gleam of the store owner's eye. The man wasn't stupid. This was not a chance encounter. A low growl rose from the store owner's throat as he came closer. David knew that the owner knew where this came from. "I can take it," David muttered, his hands clenching.

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