distressed - Story 32720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world narrowed to the confines of the cramped apartment. The eviction notice felt like a physical weight, pressing down on Maya. She sat on the floor, legs drawn up to her chest, the paper resting in her lap. She felt hollow, empty.

She stared out the window, watching the rain streak down the glass. The city lights blurred into streaks of color, reflecting the chaos inside her. She felt disconnected from everything, adrift in a sea of despair.

Her breath hitched in her throat, a choked sob escaping her lips. She didn't know what to do. She didn't know where to go.

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