distressed - Story 32920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of it made her mouth go dry, and her hands begin to tremble. The request came like a physical blow. Jessica picked at a loose thread on her sweater, her gaze fixed on it. Why now? Why this tree?

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. She got up from the table, needing to move. She started to pace, her steps hurried and uneven. She couldn't shake the feeling of impending doom.

She opened the back door and stepped into the garden. The tree stood before her, majestic and unchanged. The sight of it brought a fresh wave of that awful tension. She felt utterly trapped.

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