distressed - Story 32473 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell’s shrill ring echoed through the empty apartment, and Maya jumped, her coffee sloshing over the rim of the mug. She didn't expect anyone. Not today, of all days. Hesitantly, she peeked through the peephole. A delivery person, holding a package addressed to… "Mr. Thomas Bellweather."

Her breath hitched. Thomas Bellweather was the reason she was living in this cramped, poorly lit flat. Thomas Bellweather, with his promises and his lies. He'd said he'd move out with her, but disappeared.

She retreated back into the apartment, her heart hammering against her ribs. She didn't want to touch it. Eventually, she went back. It would be a while until the shaking stopped.

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