distressed - Story 32936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, the face in the mirror gaunt and unfamiliar. He hadn't shaved in days. His apartment was a mess, a physical manifestation of the chaos within him.

A delivery. A simple, elegant bouquet of white calla lilies. No message. A sense of unease washed over him. The lilies, a symbol of purity, felt ironic in the context of his current situation.

He placed the lilies on the table, their stark beauty a contrast to the cluttered mess around them. He found himself staring at them for a long time, the silence of the room punctuated by the frantic drumming of his fingers on the tabletop.

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