distressed - Story 32458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The implications. They flooded through David's mind, a raging torrent. The meticulously constructed world he'd built seemed to be crumbling around him.

He slammed the laptop shut, the metallic sound echoing in the empty room. He could taste bile in his throat.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, to break something, anything. He buried his face in his hands, wishing he could erase the last few hours from existence.

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