distressed - Story 32430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glossy paper of the invitation seemed to reflect the bright lights of the city. Lisa clutched it, her knuckles white. She looked around her sleek, modern apartment, a space she had carefully curated.

It was a facade. She felt empty, alone. The invitation dredged up old insecurities, reminding her of the person she'd been—the person she was afraid to still be. The thought of running into her high school rivals sent a wave of dizziness through her.

She sank into the plush couch, the elegant surroundings offering no comfort. She didn't want to go. She didn't want to see them. She wanted to disappear.

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