distressed - Story 32835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“How much?” he asked, his voice strained. He'd confronted her, finally. The account details were laid bare between them on the kitchen table. Her face was pale, her eyes darting around the room, avoiding his gaze. He felt a rising tide of bitterness, a bitter taste on his tongue. He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles white. The air crackled with unspoken accusations, with years of hidden resentment that now threatened to erupt. He wanted to run, to escape the crushing weight of this revelation.

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