distressed - Story 32629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart hammered against her ribs. Emily stared at the screen, her gaze fixed on the notification: “Coach Ramirez started following you.” She had been complaining in her posts about him and the physical demands of the sport.

She felt a wave of nausea. She wanted to delete her entire account, but knew that doing so would reveal the truth. He'd *seen* it. The relief she'd felt in her posts. All the private complaints.

During practice, every instruction felt like a personal critique. She felt clumsy, uncoordinated, and embarrassed. Her muscles ached, but the discomfort in her chest was far more intense. Every look, every correction, felt like a punishment.

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