distressed - Story 32675 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted bitter, a perfect reflection of the mood Sarah found herself in. She had been meeting with her advisor, Dr. Davies, to discuss the final edits of her thesis. That was when the bombshell dropped. “I’ve accepted a position overseas,” Dr. Davies had announced, his voice devoid of any emotion.

Sarah's hand shook as she reached for her mug. The warmth offered no comfort. She felt a strange ache in her bones, a feeling of being unmoored. The carefully constructed plans she had made, the future she had envisioned, suddenly seemed flimsy, fragile. She stared out the window, unable to focus on the busy street below.

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