distressed - Story 32460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the results, the words blurring. His chest felt constricted, making it hard to take a full breath. The air seemed thin, as though he was on a mountain peak.

The vibrant colours of the world had become dull and lifeless. He felt disoriented.

He needed to be alone. He pulled on his coat and quickly left the house, the door slamming behind him. He didn’t know where he was going, but he needed to move.

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