distressed - Story 32449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of stale coffee and cheap shampoo felt wrong. The journal, his journal, was open on the nightstand. Leo was devastated to see that. A chill ran down her spine.

"Interesting stuff," her roommate, Chris, said casually, entering the room. "You got some problems, dude."

Leo's face burned. He felt exposed, stripped bare. The words were a physical blow, each syllable a shard of ice. He closed his eyes, willing the sensation to pass, willing himself to disappear. It would not work.

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