distressed - Story 32741 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The slam of wood against wood snapped Leo from his afternoon nap. He bolted upright in his chair, heart hammering against his ribs. He knew instantly. Mrs. Gable's ancient oak, the one that loomed over everything, had finally given way. He stumbled to the window, his breath catching in his throat as he saw the monstrous limb sprawled across her roof. He rubbed his hands over his face, a gesture of disbelief and mounting dread. The insurance calls, the cleanup...it was all so much.

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