distressed - Story 32568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling cafe felt claustrophobic. Jake drummed his fingers on the table, the sound a frantic tattoo against the background chatter. Liam’s game night. His best friend's. And a surprise date for his girlfriend he had to arrange. He felt the weight of both events pressing down on him.

He kept replaying the conversation in his head, trying to find a way out of the predicament. The coffee tasted bitter. His heart was hammering.

He glanced at his phone, a physical reminder of the time ticking away, the minutes slipping through his fingers. He felt a sudden, urgent need to flee, to escape the impossible situation.

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