He felt a deep chill spread through his bones, a creeping cold that settled in his gut. Robert’s pulse was hammering in his ears. The words, the pictures, the sheer audacity of it all… His daughter, Lily, was living a double life.

He walked into Lily's room. He felt a surge of fury, but quickly replaced by a sense of confusion and helplessness. He felt a powerful urge to rip the posters off the walls, to throw everything out the window, but he just stood there, frozen.

He sank down onto the bed, the familiar scent of Lily’s perfume doing nothing to calm him. He closed his eyes, his head throbbing, and rubbed his temples.

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
worse0.291
😖0.285
😰0.276
Suppressed:
de-0.457
la-0.349
:)-0.239
B-0.232
happy-0.229