distressed - Story 32740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his heartbeat accelerate, a frantic drum against his ribs. He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles turning white. The words echoed in his head, each syllable a painful blow.

He wanted to shout, to argue, to somehow rewind time. He took a deep breath, trying to steady himself, but his chest felt constricted. His vision blurred.

He turned away from the smiling face of his friend, suddenly finding the room oppressive, filled with a silence that screamed louder than any noise. He needed to get out, he needed to breathe, he needed to escape the suffocating weight of this news.

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