distressed - Story 32756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I don't even know why I opened it," Maria mumbled, the letter crumpled in her grip. The words, so carefully chosen, felt like a personal assault. Her vision swam, the familiar surroundings of her kitchen beginning to tilt. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her, forcing her to lean against the counter. Her skin prickled, and she felt a sudden and intense need to escape. She turned, desperate to put distance between herself and the offending paper. She couldn't breathe.

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