distressed - Story 32904 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam slammed his laptop shut, the metallic clank echoing in the silence of his dorm room. He immediately felt a searing headache blooming behind his eyes. He got up from his desk and started pacing the cramped space. He couldn't quite believe it.

He had just transferred here. He had just started to feel at home. He had just made plans. Now, he didn't know where to go, what to do, or even how to begin.

His phone buzzed with notifications – frantic texts from classmates, concerned calls from family. He ignored them all, unable to face the deluge of questions and pity. He collapsed onto his bed, staring up at the ceiling, feeling an oppressive pressure, as if the very walls were closing in.

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