distressed - Story 32607 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the basement clung to Liam as he leafed through the old albums. A knot tightened in his stomach. His parents’ meticulously crafted account of their courtship, the fairy tale romance, was shattered by these candid images. His father, in his younger days, clearly had other interests.

He felt a hot flush creep up his neck. The truth felt like a physical blow. The secure world he inhabited was disintegrating, leaving him exposed.

He closed the album, the sound sharp in the quiet room. He needed to be alone. He wanted to scream.

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