distressed - Story 32850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headache began as a dull throb behind his eyes and slowly intensified, spreading like a stain. He tried to focus on his book, but the words swam before his eyes, replaced by a relentless beat.

He slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in the silent apartment. He felt a sudden surge of heat, his face flushing crimson. He threw open the window, gasping for air, but the music was louder than ever.

He paced the room, his frustration mounting with each passing second. He felt a desperate urge to flee, to run away from the noise, from the pressure building inside. He felt as though he were losing control.

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