distressed - Story 32416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Please,” cried Jessica, her voice was a near whisper. Her parents had been taken ill and were now in hospital. Hospital bills were piling up. She'd already sold everything of value. The thought of losing them was unbearable.

She found the wallet in the street, lying at the edge of the curb. It was a designer wallet, clearly expensive. Inside, along with identification, was a significant sum of money. A knot tightened in her stomach.

She thought of her parents, lying weak in their hospital beds. She thought of their faces when they found out what had happened. She just started walking. Each step felt like a betrayal. The cold air did little to soothe her.

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