distressed - Story 32584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just breathe," Amelia muttered, staring at the stage. The festival lights glared at her, making her feel exposed. The opening chords of her song, “Crimson Skies,” filled the air. A wave of heat washed over her, making her skin prickle.

The band was good, technically proficient, but emotionless. They’d stripped the song of its vulnerability, its raw edge. Amelia felt a cold hollowness spread through her. Her breath hitched. All the memories, the pain, the joy she had poured into that song... now it was just a catchy tune for a crowd.

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