distressed - Story 32785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"For Sale: Spacious Victorian with Historic Charm!" The words on the screen blurred. It was his home. His childhood home. He'd poured countless hours into that house, helping his father with repairs. Now, it was just a collection of pixels.

He felt an unfamiliar ache in his jaw, like his teeth were being clenched too tight. He felt like he couldn't think. It was just a house. It was only a house. But the feeling stayed.

He grabbed his keys, and then put them back. He went to the window, and stared out. The sun seemed blinding. He needed to be anywhere but there. The thought hung in the air, heavy and unyielding.

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