distressed - Story 32892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door to his room, the sound echoing through the quiet house. A crumpled piece of paper lay on the bed, its single letter mocking him. A D. A cold sweat slicked his palms. He kicked at his desk, the flimsy wood groaning in protest. He wanted to scream, to shatter something, anything. He sank to the floor, head in his hands, breathing raggedly. How could he explain this to his parents?

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