distressed - Story 32445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the dorm room was deafening. Alex found his journal on his roommate Ben's desk. It was open to the page where he’d written about his crush. He wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words caught in his throat.

Ben was asleep, sprawled across his bed. His face was relaxed, unaware of the turmoil he'd caused. A rage simmered inside Alex, a slow burn that threatened to consume him. He wanted to wake Ben up and start shouting.

He took a deep breath. His palms were clammy. He slowly closed the journal, carefully placing it back in its hiding spot. Then he just wanted to leave, but he felt rooted to the spot, unable to move.

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