distressed - Story 32537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant paintings in Amelia's art studio, usually a source of joy, now seemed to taunt her. Each brushstroke, each splash of color, reminded her of the future she now might not have. The scholarship had bought her the time, the space, the freedom to create. Now it was gone.

She started cleaning the studio, wiping down surfaces with unnecessary vigor. She scrubbed and scrubbed, trying to wash away the feeling of dread that clung to her like a second skin. The scent of turpentine and oil paints, once comforting, now made her feel queasy.

She sat on the floor, surrounded by her canvases, and simply stared. The vibrant hues of her art began to dim before her eyes.

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