distressed - Story 32945 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“How could he?” Eleanor whispered, the words barely audible. She sat on the edge of the bed, her legs dangling, her eyes fixed on the final lines of the chapter. They described her "intense need for validation." The implication struck her like a physical blow. A tear traced a path down her cheek, followed by another, and another, until they were flowing freely. She buried her face in her hands, the sobs wracking her body, a storm she couldn’t control.

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