distressed - Story 32438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the room, but for Elara, it was a scent of bitter irony. She watched her neighbor, Mrs. Gable, expertly kneading dough, the very dough Elara had shared her recipe for. Now, "Gable's Good Loaf" won the local baking competition.

Elara’s breath hitched. A knot formed in her stomach. She retreated back into her own home, the warmth of the day suddenly distant.

The rhythmic thump of the dough against the counter was a painful metronome.

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