Liam stood on the balcony, the cold night air doing little to soothe the fire burning within him. He'd discovered the manuscript this morning: a thinly veiled portrayal of him and his "compulsive lying." He took a shaky breath, the city lights below seeming to mock his confusion. Each line a stab of betrayal. He felt his face burn, and his vision clouded over with something akin to rage. He wanted to scream, to tear the world apart. He pressed his knuckles into his eyes, trying to make the words disappear.

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
worse0.291
😖0.285
😰0.276
Suppressed:
de-0.457
la-0.349
:)-0.239
B-0.232
happy-0.229