distressed - Story 32943 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of coffee, usually a source of comfort, soured in Leo’s nostrils. He sat slumped at the kitchen table, the manuscript clutched in his trembling hands. His hands were damp. His partner's words, the descriptions of his "tendency to withdraw," echoed in his head, a constant, nagging voice. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words caught in his throat, a suffocating knot of shame.

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