distressed - Story 32998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David found the essay, "Building Bridges," in his old high school yearbook. The memory, once a source of pride, now felt tainted. The world now knew about his fears, his hopes.

He abruptly threw the yearbook across the room, it hitting the wall and sliding to the floor. His hands began to shake uncontrollably. He bit down hard on his lip, the pressure a small comfort.

He paced his apartment, unable to find a comfortable spot. The essay had been a bridge to a better future, but now it felt like a prison cell. He wanted the essay, and all memories connected with it, to disappear.

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