The flyer slid across the floorboards as he dropped it, the glossy surface reflecting the dim light of the apartment. He felt a wave of anger, a hot surge that made his skin prickle.

He kicked at a chair, the wood connecting with a satisfying thud. The familiar surroundings now felt alien, each object a painful reminder of what he was losing.

He grabbed his keys and left, needing to be anywhere but there. The city air felt heavy, oppressive, and every face he passed seemed to mock him.

He found himself wandering aimlessly, a lost soul in a crowded city. The feeling of being adrift overwhelmed him. He didn't know where to go.

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