distressed - Story 32528 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gallery was thin, the polished surfaces reflecting her own, hollow expression. She’d been thrilled to see a new exhibit by her favourite author, Eleanor Vance. But the headlines now? The accusations of plagiarism. Sarah felt a wave of nausea wash over her.

She stared at the paintings, each a visual representation of the stolen words, the stolen ideas. She felt… adrift. She felt like all the joy and excitement had been pulled out of her.

She turned her back on the exhibit, a tremor running through her. She felt like she wanted to just… disappear.

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