distressed - Story 32815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in her hand. It was vibrating against her palm, sending tremors through her arm. She'd spent the last hour staring at the number on the screen, paralyzed. Each ring felt like a strike of a hammer against her skull.

"Hi, this is Dr. Michael Davis," the recorded voice chirped. "I'm not available right now…"

Michael Davis. The same Michael Davis who once told her that she would never amount to anything. The voice on the recording seemed mocking, each word a cruel reminder of her insecurities.

She slammed the phone down, her vision blurring. This couldn't be happening. She was so close to giving up.

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