distressed - Story 32676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Come in,” Professor Moreau said with a nod. This was what Sarah had been waiting for; a meeting to help her get organized. She had a list of questions to ask, her research plan ready to go. The meeting ended with the crushing news. The professor's face was sympathetic, but the words still landed like blows.

Sarah felt a hollow echo inside her. Her breath caught in her chest, making her dizzy. The room seemed to spin. She tried to smile, to offer a polite farewell, but the words caught in her throat. She needed to leave the office, to escape the feeling that she was trapped in a slow-motion car crash.

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