distressed - Story 32505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of facing the neighbors again made her stomach churn. The dog, a fluffy Samoyed named Snowball, had gotten out, yet again, trampling her prized orchids. She just couldn’t… She wanted to scream.

She sank onto the porch swing, the wood cold against her legs. She imagined the conversation, the polite smiles, the hollow promises. It was all a charade. They didn't care.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the image of the ruined orchids. She felt the tears prick at her eyes, the slow burn of frustration. The peaceful silence of her yard, shattered.

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