distressed - Story 32418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No, no, no,” repeated Amelia, her voice almost unintelligible, her hands shaking. The letter, the eviction notice, lay on the table. She had lost her job. She had been forced to leave her home, and now, she was about to be forced out onto the streets.

She found the wallet in a park, hidden under a bench. Inside, a substantial sum of money. It was as if a lifeline had been thrown to her. She wanted to be happy, but the reality was that she was terrified.

She stared out at the park. Children were playing. Lovers were walking hand-in-hand. This wasn't her life anymore. She could barely breathe. The air felt thin, unsupportive. A wave of nausea hit her, and she nearly collapsed.

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