distressed - Story 32567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art supplies in front of her seemed to swim before Clara’s eyes. One party for her art club, one for her beloved grandmother. The vibrant colors of the art supplies seemed to mock her. She felt like she was being split in two.

She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to block out the pressure that was mounting in her chest. A cold sweat prickled her skin. She imagined the disappointment on her grandmother's face. She pictured the club's frustration.

She took a shaky breath. She felt utterly paralyzed, unable to move forward, unable to decide. The silence of the studio amplified her inner turmoil.

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