distressed - Story 32496 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the cease and desist order, the paper crinkling in his sweaty palm. His world had crumbled. His automatic dog walker, his pride and joy, was now a liability. Someone else owned the patent. He felt a tightness in his chest, a knot of despair.

He felt the sudden urge to break something, to tear the room apart. He wanted to scream.

He clenched his teeth and rose from his chair, pacing the length of his tiny apartment. The air felt thin, difficult to breathe. He felt empty.

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