distressed - Story 32885 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun felt heavy on Clara’s shoulders as she watched the gardener meticulously tending to Mr. Peterson’s elaborate rose bushes. Every leaf was perfect, every bloom vibrant. Her own garden was a sorry sight, neglected and overrun with weeds.

The heat prickled on her skin, mirroring the sting of resentment that flared within her. She'd been working overtime for weeks, struggling to keep her head above water. Mr. Peterson, on the other hand, seemed to float through life with effortless grace.

She bit her lip, a bitter taste rising in her throat. The sheer unfairness of it all was almost unbearable.

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