He stared at the television screen, the image of "Chef Bella" beaming as she presented her "Velvet Vanilla Cake." It was *his* cake. The cake he created for his daughter’s birthday, the cake he painstakingly perfected.

Mark felt a sudden, dizzying lightheadedness. He gripped the edge of the sofa, his knuckles white. The announcer raved about Chef Bella's originality.

He buried his face in his hands, a low groan escaping his lips. The lie was too much to bear.

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
worse0.291
😖0.285
😰0.276
Suppressed:
de-0.457
la-0.349
:)-0.239
B-0.232
happy-0.229