distressed - Story 32510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was late for work. Again. The dog, a hyperactive husky mix, had somehow squeezed through a gap in the fence, and he now had to chase it. The clock was ticking.

He ran after the dog, a wave of heat washing over him. He was losing control. The world seemed to spin faster and faster.

He was tired of being late, tired of the constant worry, tired of the never-ending cycle of escape and chase. He was not a dog handler. He was not prepared for this. The dog, oblivious, continued to run, a symbol of everything that was consuming 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