distressed - Story 32609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt oppressive, the shadows lengthening in the late afternoon sun. Mark sat on the floor, surrounded by the discarded photographs. The story of his great-uncle, the war hero, was a tale of bravery and honor. But these photos showed a different story. He was leaning next to a man, a smile on his face, the intimacy stark.

He felt a deep, profound unease. He couldn't reconcile the images with the legend. The world seemed tilted, unbalanced.

He curled up, hugging his knees to his chest. He felt like he was falling.

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