distressed - Story 32744 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, for crying out loud," muttered Mark, kicking at a loose stone on his porch. The noise of chainsaws already echoed from next door. He’d just finished meticulously mowing his lawn, a small act of peace in his chaotic life. Now, the looming shadow cast by the fallen branches ruined the serenity. He clenched his jaw, feeling the familiar tension in his neck and shoulders. He didn't want to deal with the inevitable questions, the worried looks, the obligations.

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