distressed - Story 32625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. “Your art teacher, Ms. Rodriguez, is now following you on Pinterest.” Jamie's fingers tightened around her phone, her knuckles turning white.

She spent hours curating her boards – mood boards, collections of her art, inspirations. Suddenly, it all felt…wrong. Her carefully crafted aesthetic, her personality, exposed for critique. She deleted a board she had made of inspiration pictures, thinking she should change everything.

Art class was unbearable. Jamie couldn’t look at her, she kept doodling to avoid eye contact. She couldn’t make anything. Every brushstroke felt observed, every color choice scrutinized. She felt like her own creative space had been invaded.

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