distressed - Story 32697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She gripped her phone tightly, scrolling through emails for the tenth time. Nothing. The waiting was the worst part, an agonizing exercise in patience. Each notification that wasn't about the job seemed like a personal insult.

The lunch break felt like a trial. She couldn't face the others. She ate her salad at her desk, alone. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to break down.

She hadn't slept well in weeks. The fear was making her nauseous. The possibility of losing out on the promotion felt like a mountain of pressure on her chest.

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