distressed - Story 32649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden pressure behind his eyes, a sensation like a dam about to burst. Alex closed the laptop slowly, the click echoing in the sudden stillness of his cubicle. The words on the email seemed to dance before his eyes, mocking him. He felt an intense disquiet, a feeling of being thrown off balance.

He leaned back in his chair, his body rigid, his jaw clenched. He felt a profound sense of helplessness, of being swept away by forces beyond his control. He ran a hand over his face, trying to wipe away the fatigue and the fear.

He thought of the projects he was working on, the deadlines looming, the expectations he had to meet. Suddenly, none of it seemed to matter. He felt a rising wave of nausea. He took a deep breath, trying to calm himself, but the turmoil inside him only intensified.

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