distressed - Story 32673 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya slammed the door to her office, the sound echoing in the empty hallway. She'd just seen the announcement posted on the departmental bulletin board. "Dr. Ramirez to Accept Professorship at..." Her heart hammered in her chest. Everything had been going so well. She’d finally felt like she was on the right track, making progress with her research.

She paced her small office, her hands clenched into fists. How could Dr. Ramirez just leave? He’d been her champion, her mentor, the one person who truly believed in her. The thought of starting over with a new advisor, explaining everything again, felt utterly exhausting. She felt a burning sensation in her throat.

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