distressed - Story 32442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the open journal on the coffee table. Liam couldn’t quite make his feet move. The words, his words, stared back at him, the intimate secrets now a communal commodity. His throat closed up.

"Oh, hey," Mark said, strolling in. "I just wanted to see if you were around. I read some of your journal, sorry, but it was just lying there." A casual gesture with his hand.

Liam swallowed hard, avoiding eye contact. He wanted to scream. He wanted to disappear. He felt a hot flush crawl up his neck and cheeks. His carefully constructed wall of privacy had crumbled.

He felt like a stranger now, living in his own life. The thought was sickening.

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