distressed - Story 32934 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows, a relentless rhythm mirroring the frantic beat of his heart. He’d been pacing the living room for hours, his phone clutched in his sweaty palm. Each missed call had brought with it a fresh wave of panic.

A floral arrangement, a riot of colours he didn't recognise, arrived unexpectedly. No card. He turned it over and over, examining every angle, desperately searching for a clue. The vibrant blossoms felt like a cruel joke, a splash of colour in his monochrome existence.

He set the flowers on the table, their cheerful appearance mocking his anxiety. The silence in the room seemed to deepen, amplifying the chaotic thoughts swirling in his mind.

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