distressed - Story 32797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The kitchen timer beeped, but Jessica didn't move. The scent of burnt cookies filled the air, unnoticed. The news article lay open on the counter, the photograph of the deceased, taken inside her house, staring up at her. Her hands were ice cold. She didn't want to bake. She didn't want to breathe. Her mind replayed the realtor's nonchalant comment, *“Oh, it’s a wonderful place. Some history, of course.”* Now, the history was a weight, pressing down on her, suffocating her. She felt like she was drowning in the echoes of screams.

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