distressed - Story 32718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink. Emily paced, the notice crinkling in her grasp. The air in her lungs felt inadequate. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to a torrent of tears. She bit her lip, determined to stay composed.

She ran her hand through her tangled hair, a desperate attempt to bring order to the chaos swirling in her mind. The weight of her past, the struggles she had endured, seemed to press down on her.

She glanced around the room, each object a painful reminder of her life. She felt betrayed. She was utterly alone.

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