distressed - Story 32500 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"They took it," whispered Eleanor, her voice barely audible. Her voice cracked with the weight of her words. Her device for real-time translation was already on the market. Someone else had beaten her.

She felt a pressure building behind her eyes. Tears threatened to spill, but she fought them back. She couldn't afford to break down.

She walked to the bathroom, splashed water on her face, and looked at her reflection. She saw a stranger. She felt a profound sense of loss. She felt the heavy weight of failure.

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