distressed - Story 32606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," Clara murmured, her voice barely audible. The photographs lay scattered across the table, each one a betrayal. The carefully constructed image of her grandmother, the matriarch, the strong, independent woman, now revealed as someone... completely different.

Clara felt a hollowness in her chest. She had always idolized her, believed in her strength. Now, she was staring at photos of a woman who was light and fun, but had hidden the truth from everyone. A sense of wrongness invaded her, a sense of deep, abiding confusion.

She reached for a glass of water, her hand shaking so badly she spilled it across the table.

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