distressed - Story 32860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the list was a physical burden. He ran his hand over the worn paper, the words blurring through a veil of unshed tears. "Travel the Silk Road." He swallowed hard. The thought of this, his mother's lifelong dream, felt like a bitter pill to swallow. His chest felt tight, constricted.

He looked around the room, everything felt foreign, unreal. He felt an intense urge to escape, to run. He stumbled towards the door, then turned back, his gaze fixated on the list. He crumpled the paper in his hand. He then, slowly, picked it up, smoothing it out. He took a deep, shuddering breath, then, with a new determination, opened the door.

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