distressed - Story 32941 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tempest inside Amelia. She stared at the open laptop, the glowing screen illuminating her face, highlighting the tremor in her lower lip. A paragraph about "Amelia" and her "unreasonable jealousy" stared back at her, a brutal assessment of her. She felt a cold dread creep into her stomach, spreading like ice water. Gritting her teeth, she pushed the laptop away, the movement abrupt and jerky. The room swam, the rain drumming a relentless accusation against the glass.

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