distressed - Story 32878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived with the subject line: “Your work featured!” Leo's heart leapt, but the joy was instantly replaced with a cold dread. He opened the attachment and his eyes widened. The website, dedicated to a charity he'd never heard of, was filled with his illustrations.

He felt a growing sense of outrage. The vibrant colors of his artwork, now used without his permission, seemed to mock him. His hands started to shake. He felt a sharp, sudden pain in his head.

He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the silent room. He paced back and forth, trying to process this violation, this affront. He felt a deep, profound sense of helplessness. His fists clenched so tightly, the nails bit into his palms.

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