distressed - Story 32898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No, that can't be right,” she muttered under her breath, her voice tight with disbelief. She looked from the grade on the paper to her meticulously organized notes. Her meticulously organized notes. The disparity felt wrong. She paced back and forth, her steps quick and agitated, the sound of her shoes echoing in the empty hallway. She felt a burning need to fix this, to make it disappear.

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