distressed - Story 32995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university's alumni newsletter featured Anya’s application essay as the "success story" of the month. She saw her words staring back at her, bold and bright, on the front page. Her face flushed with unease. The essay was supposed to be hers alone.

She dropped the newsletter onto the table. Her shoulders slumped. A wave of nausea washed over her. A sudden wave of intense heat crept up her neck, her skin prickling. She felt like she wanted to hide.

She reached for the TV remote, turning on the television. The bright images and loud sounds did nothing to take her mind off the feeling of exposure. She sat there, unable to stop the internal turmoil.

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