distressed - Story 32910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information session felt like an eternity. The university president spoke, his voice sounding distant and unreal. The words bounced around the lecture hall, with no meaning. The fluorescent lights overhead seemed to pulse, amplifying the pounding in Jessica’s head.

She picked at a loose thread on her jeans. She couldn't focus. Her thoughts were a jumbled mess of worries and what-ifs. This was her entire life, her future, her career.

She felt a wave of anger, then despair, then a hollow emptiness. She wanted to yell, to shout, to break something. She just wanted the world to stop.

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