distressed - Story 32559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the closed bedroom door, a barrier between her and her roommate, Maria, who was currently in there, probably researching chinchillas. Chloe felt a tremor of unease course through her. Maria was so enthusiastic, so certain. But Chloe was struggling with the idea.

She had pictured their apartment as a sanctuary, a calm space away from the world. Now, she envisioned dust bunnies, the constant cleaning and grooming, and the possibility of biting. She wrung her hands. Her heart pounded in her chest, a frantic drumbeat against her ribs.

She took a deep breath, steeling herself. She had to try to find some common ground. She took a step towards the door.

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