distressed - Story 32759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He read the words aloud, his voice raspy and barely a whisper. John’s fingers traced the elegant script, each word a cruel reminder of his past failures. His shoulders slumped, his posture a picture of defeat. The air in the room seemed to grow thick, heavy with unspoken feelings. He closed his eyes, his head dropping, his chin resting on his chest. A single tear traced a path down his cheek, followed by another, and then another, a silent cascade of regret.

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