distressed - Story 32437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the food truck festival felt muted to Ethan. He sat on a curb, watching a long line snake around "Spicy Sam's Samosas," his samosas. His grandmother’s recipe, passed down through generations. Now, "Spicy Sam" was the talk of the town.

Ethan picked at a loose thread on his jeans. The bustling crowd, the happy chatter, grated on his nerves.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to run. To escape.

The world seemed to spin.

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