distressed - Story 32894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"But... but Professor," Liam stammered, his voice barely a whisper. He stared across the desk at the professor, his cheeks burning. His mouth felt dry, and his palms were clammy. He’d gone over everything. He'd poured his heart and soul into the project. He felt a deep, hollow ache in his chest. His carefully constructed arguments seemed to crumble before him, dissolving into nothingness.

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