distressed - Story 32627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold dread washed over Chloe. Mr. Miller, her physics teacher, was now among her Instagram followers. He was always so serious, so focused on facts, she thought. She was terrified of what he would make of her silly posts.

She felt suddenly self-conscious about every photo, every caption. She considered making her profile private, but the thought of it being a sign of admitting guilt felt awful. She couldn't shake the sensation that she was under a microscope.

During the next physics lesson, she felt a profound sense of unease. When she had to present her project, her voice trembled, her hands shaking as she fumbled with her notes. Mr. Miller’s gaze, usually so neutral, felt like a piercing examination. She just wanted to run away.

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