distressed - Story 32619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment loomed. I could feel the eyes of everyone, or so it felt, on my back. My palms were slick, and I found myself repeatedly wiping them on my trousers. The ballroom seemed to be closing in around me. It was a suffocating pressure that seemed to increase as the moment grew closer.

I looked at my mother and father. They were smiling and happy. The thought that I could possibly ruin this moment for them felt even worse. The tightness in my chest was almost unbearable.

I wanted to bolt.

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