distressed - Story 32608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the museum was oppressively still. Sarah clutched the faded photograph, the image of her great-grandmother, a woman she’d always been told was a reserved, quiet soul, laughing with a group of friends, all of them looking rather wild. The family history, a carefully maintained garden of respectability, suddenly felt like a lie.

Sarah felt a prickle of sweat on her forehead. The comfortable version of events that she'd always accepted crumbled before her eyes. The museum seemed to close in around her. She needed to leave, to get some air.

She put the photograph back in the display. She had to leave now.

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