distressed - Story 32905 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s announcement, made with a shaking voice, had sent a ripple of murmurs through the classroom. Sarah felt a chill race through her. She felt like she couldn't breathe. Her hands started to tremble, and she gripped the edge of her desk to steady herself.

Her dreams felt like they were fading. Her life was suddenly unmoored. All the late nights, the sacrifices, the hours spent studying – they suddenly felt meaningless.

She barely registered the professor's sympathetic words, the offers of support. Her mind was a whirlwind of anxieties, practical worries, and a profound sense of loss. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to a torrent of tears she desperately tried to hold back.

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