distressed - Story 32499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone slipped from Liam's grasp, landing with a soft thud on the carpet. The confirmation; his bio-luminescent clothing line? Already patented. A cold wave swept over him. His throat constricted.

He felt his hands clench into fists. He wanted to shatter something, to destroy the world around him. His entire life had been leading to this. He took a deep breath.

He leaned against the wall, his legs threatening to give way. The walls of his apartment seemed to breathe, closing in on him.

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