distressed - Story 32654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating. The air hung thick with tension. He'd been waiting for this moment, but now, his hands were trembling. He’d accidentally sent the text. "I'm so screwed." To the prosecutor.

He’d wanted to text his lawyer. He pressed his lips together, feeling as if the world was closing in. The image of the text on the prosecution's screen played over and over in his mind. He glanced at his lawyer, who was staring back at him, face unreadable.

He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt weak, vulnerable. He wanted to disappear. He felt the cold sweat begin to trickle down his spine. The clerk called his name.

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