The ornate writing desk, his great-grandfather’s legacy, had been loaded into the moving van. It was the last piece of furniture. Tears welled in Emily's eyes as she watched the movers depart, their truck rumbling down the driveway. Her hands trembled as she clutched a photo of her grandfather sitting at the desk. Each drawer, each meticulously crafted detail, spoke volumes about the man she never knew. A wave of profound sadness washed over her, making her legs weak. She felt like a part of her was being ripped away, leaving a gaping void in its place.

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
worse0.291
😖0.285
😰0.276
Suppressed:
de-0.457
la-0.349
:)-0.239
B-0.232
happy-0.229