distressed - Story 32570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the library pressed in on Olivia. Two parties; one for her study group, one for a childhood friend’s masquerade ball. Each a conflicting pull on her time, on her loyalties. Her chest felt constricted.

She traced the spines of the books, the words blurring before her eyes. She felt a wave of nausea. Her throat tightened, making it hard to swallow.

She pressed her palms against her temples, trying to contain the chaos within. The weight of her dilemma felt unbearable. A single tear traced a path down her cheek, leaving a wet trail on the pristine surface of the desk.

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