distressed - Story 32997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor had distributed photocopies of her essay, “The Canvas of Memories,” as a prime example of evocative writing. Clara felt her cheeks burn. It was mortifying.

She sat rigid in her chair, unable to meet anyone's gaze. The classroom seemed to shrink, the air thick with unspoken judgment. She gripped her pen so tightly the metal bent.

She felt a desperate need to flee, to vanish before anyone could acknowledge the connection between the published essay and the quiet girl in the back row. She just wanted to go home.

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