She crumpled the paper in her hand, the sharp edges digging into her palm. Her apartment! The thought of leaving, of losing her cherished space, brought on a wave of cold shivers.

She paced back and forth across the small living room, the worn rug beneath her feet offering no comfort. Her thoughts spun, a whirlwind of anxieties.

She called her mother, her voice cracking as she recounted the news. "I don't know what to do," she confessed, the vulnerability raw and exposed.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a sense of profound loss. The world seemed to be turning, and she was struggling to find her footing. She let the tears come.

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
worse0.291
😖0.285
😰0.276
Suppressed:
de-0.457
la-0.349
:)-0.239
B-0.232
happy-0.229