distressed - Story 32419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a cold dread as I stared at the bill. The mortgage. The insurance. The utilities. I didn't know how I was going to manage. My husband was gone, and I was alone. The pressure was immense.

The wallet sat on the counter of the grocery store. It was large and overstuffed. I opened it and saw the cash. My heart began to pound. My head swam. My fingers itched.

I looked around the store, the other shoppers completely oblivious. The enormity of the situation crashed down on me. I felt a stinging sensation behind my eyes. I felt a compulsion to run, to escape.

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