distressed - Story 32557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art supplies in her shared studio space seemed to taunt her. Lila’s hand hovered over a tube of crimson paint, but she couldn't bring herself to squeeze it. Her roommate, Jess, a fellow artist, wanted a guinea pig. Lila, who valued her solitude and clean environment, felt a cold knot forming in her stomach at the thought of the little critter.

Her breath hitched as she imagined the potential smells, the scattered hay, the incessant squeaking. She pushed the paint tube away. The knot tightened, constricting her chest. Her hands were trembling.

She slumped against the work table, feeling drained. "I... I just don't know if I can," she muttered, the words barely escaping her lips.

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