distressed - Story 32978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Could I… maybe… just a little bit?” The hesitant question from Mr. Garcia felt like a physical blow. Thomas felt a wave of dizziness, the world tilting slightly. It was supposed to be his space, his control. The meticulous symmetry of the garden, his source of comfort, was now under threat. He could barely bring himself to meet his neighbor’s gaze. He felt a deep, unsettling ache in the pit of his stomach, like a knot tightening.

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