distressed - Story 32973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight on Arthur’s shoulders felt heavier than usual as he watched Mr. Evans approach, a spade resting on his shoulder. Sunlight glinted off the polished wood. Arthur knew what was coming. Mr. Evans wanted to plant herbs. He always wanted to plant herbs. Arthur's hands clenched at his sides. He saw his carefully planned weekend of quiet reading and birdwatching collapsing before him. The thought made him feel like he was trapped, pinned down, unable to breathe. He began to sweat, the air seeming to thicken around him.

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