distressed - Story 32737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art studio seemed to fade, the air thick with a sudden, suffocating silence. Amelia gripped her paintbrushes, her hands trembling so violently that a streak of crimson paint splashed across the canvas.

Across the country? She felt a searing pain in her chest. The words echoed in her mind, a relentless drumbeat against her skull. She couldn't focus, the vibrant hues of her paints suddenly meaningless.

She dropped the brush, the bristles splaying across the canvas, the mess mirroring the wreckage of her emotions. She felt a wave of nausea and stumbled to the sink, needing to be anywhere but there.

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