distressed - Story 32818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The appointment was at 3:00 PM. She’d been obsessively checking the time for hours, each minute feeling longer than the last. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of the room. She was convinced something was wrong.

She stared at the business card. “Dr. David Reynolds, Clinical Psychologist.” David Reynolds. His name appeared in stark letters.

Her mind flooded with memories. The taunts, the sneers, the feeling of utter powerlessness. She threw the card across the room, then immediately regretted it and retrieved it. Now, it was time to leave for the appointment, but she couldn't move.

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