distressed - Story 32947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colours of the city blurred as Maya stared at the screen. The cafe buzzed around her, but she felt entirely alone, lost in the sentences detailing her "inability to commit." Her breath hitched in her throat, and she felt a desperate urge to flee, to disappear. She grabbed her bag, the leather cold against her trembling hand, and fled out into the crowded street. The air felt thick, difficult to navigate. Her vision swam.

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