distressed - Story 32433 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another one," the waitress chirped, placing a steaming plate of "Aunt Millie's Meatloaf" in front of Eloise. Eloise’s jaw clenched. The meatloaf on her plate, smelling faintly of the herbs she used herself, was…hers. Her Aunt Millie's. The one she’d crafted, refined, and perfected over countless Sunday dinners.

She picked at the food, the familiar flavors turning alien in her mouth. Her stomach churned. The restaurant was bustling, filled with happy chatter, but it felt like a mocking symphony. Each bite was a reminder.

Her hands shook as she reached for her water. The crystal glass reflected the hollow ache in her eyes.

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