distressed - Story 32455 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," Clara whispered, the word barely audible. The words on the screen swam before her eyes. It was real. She wasn't who she thought she was.

Her throat constricted, making it difficult to breathe. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a physical manifestation of a turmoil.

She stumbled to the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face. The face staring back at her in the mirror seemed unfamiliar, foreign. It wasn't her own.

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