distressed - Story 32971 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mimicking the frantic drumming in Amelia's chest. Mr. Henderson, a man whose smile always seemed a little too wide, was at the door, his voice muffled by the downpour. *Again?* she thought, her stomach twisting. He wanted to talk about something. She knew that look. Opening the door a crack, she saw him gesturing towards her meticulously kept lawn, the perfect green a point of pride. His voice, once a gentle rumble, was now pleading, something about needing "a little sunshine" for his tomatoes. Her knuckles whitened as she gripped the door, the thought of letting him carve up her space making her feel a strange pressure behind her eyes.

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