distressed - Story 32436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Can I help you, ma'am?" the cashier asked, her voice cheerful. Clara stared at the menu board, her gaze fixated on the "Mrs. Claus's Cookies," her own recipe, now sold in every supermarket. A cold wave washed over her, chilling her to the core.

Clara’s nails dug into the counter. Her throat constricted, making it hard to swallow. The cookies, she realized, no longer felt like a symbol of love and family. They felt like a betrayal.

She turned and fled the store, unable to meet the cashier's friendly gaze.

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