distressed - Story 32480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw it as soon as he got home, the brown box sitting near his door. “To Mr. Arthur Finch." He felt a tightening in his chest. Arthur Finch. The name felt like a curse.

His palms were slick. He thought about leaving it. Ignoring it. Pretending it wasn’t there. But he knew he couldn't. It wasn’t in his nature.

He opened the package, his hands shaking. Inside, a single, withered rose. He looked around his apartment, he felt the loneliness settle, a cold weight in his stomach. He sat down and cried.

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