distressed - Story 32476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package, left on the doorstep, was a splash of vibrant color against the drab surroundings. “To Mr. Julian Thorne,” it read. Liam didn’t even know Julian Thorne. He didn't think the previous occupant of this room even had any friends.

His shoulders slumped. He felt a wave of fatigue wash over him. His head was pounding. He felt like he'd been wading through mud all day. The thought of dealing with anything else felt like an impossible task. He dragged himself inside, the box a heavy weight.

He eventually opened the box. It was filled with paints and a brand new easel. There was a note. The words blurred before his eyes, his vision swimming. He turned away and walked out.

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