distressed - Story 32739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her throat closed up, and she found it hard to swallow. The simple words, “I’m moving,” reverberated in her head, crushing her. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach, making her feel sick.

She laughed nervously, a high-pitched sound that didn't feel like her own. Her hands flew up to her mouth, covering her face. She closed her eyes.

"No," she whispered, shaking her head. The sound of her friend's voice seemed distant, as if coming from the other end of a long tunnel. She suddenly felt very alone, isolated.

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