distressed - Story 32980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a patch," Mr. Olsen said, his voice cheerful, as he pointed towards the far corner of the yard. Amelia felt a surge of nausea. She had carefully crafted this space, the neat rows of flowers, the quiet, the feeling of control. Now, it was being threatened. She felt as though the blood was draining from her face, leaving her chilled and hollow. Her hands trembled as she forced a smile, the gesture feeling alien on her face.

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