distressed - Story 32603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Impossible," Emily choked out, her voice barely a whisper. She stared at the photographs, the paper cool against her clammy palms. A whole side of her family, the one her mother swore was always so boring, so proper, looked entirely different. Laughing, dancing, drinking – the exact opposite of what she'd been told.

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the quiet of the room. The stories of piety and dedication seemed to dissolve under the weight of these vibrant, previously unseen moments. A deep, unsettling ache resonated within her.

She pushed herself away from the table, the chair scraping against the floorboards. She needed air. The truth had become a heavy weight, pressing down on her.

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