distressed - Story 32598 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No,” he breathed, the word a whisper. He’d read the email three times, each time hoping the words would change. They hadn't. He dropped his phone onto the desk, the screen facing down, its light extinguished.

He felt a deep, hollow emptiness. He felt the sting of disappointment, not just for himself, but for everyone who believed in him. He hadn't just failed himself, but everyone around him.

His gaze fell to his manuscript on the desk. He hadn’t felt any desire to re-read it. He pushed it away from him and rested his head on his arms.

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