distressed - Story 32919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment the email appeared, he felt a jolt. His heart started a wild, erratic rhythm. The words on the screen swam before his eyes. He instinctively reached for his chest, as if to calm the organ within. He couldn't seem to get enough air.

He excused himself from the meeting, his voice cracking slightly as he spoke. He walked outside, the crisp air doing little to help the suffocating feeling. His mind was a battlefield, filled with frantic thoughts.

He leaned against his car, the cool metal offering a small solace. The tree stood in the distance, a silent judge, its leaves rustling in the breeze.

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