distressed - Story 32564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pounding in Leo’s head echoed the frantic rhythm of his thoughts. Two parties, two obligations, one impossibly small timeframe. One for his band's gig, which he'd been planning for months. The other, a surprise party for his girlfriend, Sarah, which he'd accidentally double-booked.

His stomach clenched. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further. He'd poured his heart into this gig. He wanted to do well for his bandmates. He didn’t want to hurt Sarah. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe.

He slumped onto his bed, staring at the ceiling. The weight of his commitments threatened to crush him. He felt utterly stuck.

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