distressed - Story 32999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah had discovered it while browsing a friend’s blog - her essay, "The Rhythm of Rust," was posted as a shining example. Her blood ran cold. The essay felt like a private diary entry.

She felt a wave of dizziness. She stumbled back, needing to lean against the wall for support. The images on the screen seemed to blur together, becoming a kaleidoscope of her own words.

She desperately wanted to erase every trace of the essay. She felt utterly exposed, vulnerable. She wanted to be any place but there.

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