distressed - Story 32890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metallic taste of anxiety coated Karen's tongue. She stared at the photo on her phone – a casual shot of Mr. Harrison, her neighbour, boarding a private jet. His smile was wide, carefree. She'd always thought he was a retired teacher, a gentle man who enjoyed gardening.

She'd been stressed about her car repair. It was a crippling blow to her budget. She'd been looking at the classifieds, searching for second-hand parts.

She felt a hollowness in her stomach, a feeling of being completely and utterly out of sorts. The world seemed to tilt on its axis.

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