distressed - Story 32527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the bookstore felt wrong, mocking. Maya walked past the shelves, the familiar titles of her favorite author, Caspian Thorne, now rendered ugly. The comparison charts she'd read earlier replayed in her mind, each word a blow.

She gripped the strap of her bag, her knuckles white. She found herself unable to breathe properly. A strange pressure closed around her chest. The air suddenly felt thick, heavy.

She turned and fled the store. The world, once filled with possibilities, now seemed… tainted. The joyous memories of reading her favorite author now felt tainted and hollow.

The street felt too crowded, the noise overwhelming.

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