distressed - Story 32769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun felt overly bright, the air too still. The absence was a vast, gaping maw in the landscape. Her childhood maples, now gone, left a void in her heart. Laura felt as if she had lost a friend.

Her lower lip trembled, and she bit down hard, trying to stem the tide of emotion. A wave of nausea rolled through her, and she felt a desperate need to sit, to find some purchase against the swirling world.

She sank to the ground, her back against a nearby tree, and stared at the empty space. The tears flowed freely now, coursing down her cheeks, a silent testament to her grief. The world felt heavy, and she felt utterly alone.

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