distressed - Story 32820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The exam room felt too small, the air thick with unspoken tension. He sat rigidly in the chair, his gaze fixed on the sterile white wall. The doctor’s voice was warm, professional, but it did little to ease the tightness in his chest.

“So, tell me what brings you in today?”

He swallowed hard. He had to be honest.

“It's just… a lot. I’m not sure where to begin.”

He looked up. It was Dr. James Carter. He recognized the eyes, the way the corners of his mouth turned down. It had been years. Years of terror. He didn't know what to do.

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