distressed - Story 32615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The music was loud, the room too hot, and the air thick with perfume and the smell of roasting beef. I hated it. It felt like everyone was expecting something from me. The pressure was intense. This was supposed to be a joyous occasion, a celebration of my father's career. But all I felt was a knot of anxiety in the pit of my stomach.

I kept fidgeting with the cufflinks on my shirt, feeling like they were choking me. My gaze kept darting around the room, seeking an escape route. I saw a door leading to a balcony, and my mind raced with the possibility of a brief respite. Maybe some fresh air.

The thought of standing up there, saying those words… it was almost crippling.

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