distressed - Story 32498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Arthur threw the engineering schematics across the room. He felt a bitter taste in his mouth. His self-repairing bridge had been patented – not by him, but by a large construction firm.

He felt a deep sense of injustice. The thought of losing all his work was a wound that refused to heal.

He walked to the window and stared at the setting sun. The light felt harsh and unyielding. The silence of the room was oppressive. He felt utterly alone.

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