The phone rang incessantly, each ring a hammer blow against Eleanorโ€™s fragile composure. She ignored it. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the sounds of the men yelling outside. The air in the house felt thick, stale, trapping the panic bubbling within her. She pulled a blanket over her head, wishing she could disappear, wishing she could rewind time and change everything.

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:
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.304
๐Ÿ˜ž0.296
worse0.291
๐Ÿ˜–0.285
๐Ÿ˜ฐ0.276
Suppressed:
de-0.457
la-0.349
:)-0.239
B-0.232
happy-0.229