distressed - Story 32446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Hey, I read your journal last night. Sorry, but it was just sitting there,” Jason said nonchalantly. The words hung in the air, a verbal blow. She could feel a ringing in her ears.

The blood drained from Olivia's face. The room seemed to tilt. She felt sick, her stomach twisting into knots. She wanted to run, to escape the confines of the dorm room and the casual cruelty of her roommate.

Her throat ached. She couldn't say a word. She slowly walked to her desk, grabbed her bag, and left. She just needed air.

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