distressed - Story 32447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the posters on the wall seemed to mock her. Emily stared at the journal, now lying next to her roommate, Sarah's, half-eaten sandwich. A wave of nausea washed over her.

Sarah walked in, eyes bright. "Wow, you have a lot to say, huh?"

Emily flinched. Everything felt wrong, as if she had suddenly lost control of her own body. Her breath hitched. She couldn't meet Sarah's gaze. Her hands shook violently. She needed to get away, far away, and she needed to do it immediately.

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