distressed - Story 32907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It hit Maya like a physical blow. The email notification. The frantic texts. The stunned silence that had fallen over the library. She sat frozen at her desk, unable to move.

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. She suddenly couldn’t concentrate. The once familiar world was now a bewildering chaos. She slowly looked around, noticing how everyone was now looking pale and gaunt.

She had poured her heart and soul into this institution. She had imagined graduating, wearing her cap and gown, beginning a career. Now the world before her was a blurry mess, with everything turned on its head.

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