distressed - Story 32760 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter, postmarked decades ago, felt like a ticking time bomb in her hand. Grace’s pulse quickened, her breath coming in shallow gasps. She had to sit, the sudden dizziness threatening to make her fall. She sank into the worn armchair, the fabric doing little to cushion the blow. The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. She felt a cold sweat break out on her forehead. The world tilted, the past and present colliding with brutal force.

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