distressed - Story 32700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headache began behind her eyes and spread. She tried to concentrate on the project, but the words swam before her. She had been so sure.

The memory of the interview, the questions, the nervous laughter, the evasive answers, now played in a loop inside her head. She was a failure.

She pulled the car over to the side of the road, the world tilting and blurring around her. She closed her eyes, and took a deep breath. She could not breathe.

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