distressed - Story 32990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the paper felt immense in his hand. His chest constricted. The building was becoming condos. This couldn’t be happening.

He sat on the couch, the cushions suddenly hard and unyielding. The silence of the apartment seemed to press in on him, amplifying the frantic beat of his heart. He felt trapped.

He picked up the remote, flipping through channels, but the images on the screen blurred together. Nothing could distract him. His mind was racing.

He leaned back, closing his eyes, and a single tear escaped. He needed someone, anyone, to tell him this was a nightmare.

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