distressed - Story 32977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The knock on the door was sharp, startling her. It was Ms. Bell, her new neighbor. Her bright tone and the proposal to plant a "shared garden" felt like an invasion. She felt her muscles lock up as she listened, a cold sweat breaking out on her forehead. The perfectly manicured lawn, her sanctuary, was under threat. The world seemed to shrink around her, the air thick and heavy. Each word Ms. Bell spoke was a pressure on her chest.

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