distressed - Story 32847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay on the doormat, crisp and white. He recognised the handwriting, and his stomach lurched. He didn't want to open it. He knew what it would say.

He picked it up, his fingers trembling. The words blurred as he read them, each sentence a fresh accusation. He felt the familiar weight of shame settle over him.

He crumpled the letter in his hand, his vision blurring with unshed tears. He wanted to disappear, to hide from the world, from the judgment. He just wanted it all to stop. He felt trapped.

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