stressed - Story 140024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office air conditioning blasted a frigid wind, doing little to cool down Clara's racing thoughts. Her shoulders were hunched, her gaze fixed on the endless stream of emails flooding her inbox. She felt suffocated, trapped.

A splash of color on her desk caught her eye: a drawing by her niece, Sophie. It featured a peculiar character— long, spindly limbs, a perpetually surprised expression. It was Ignatius, her childhood friend, always present in her fantasies.

Clara leaned back in her chair, a sudden wave of fatigue washing over her. She used to escape into a world of pure imagination. Maybe she needed to find that escape once more.

Emotion: stressed

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -1.37 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.53

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion stressed. 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 stressed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the stressed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the stressed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😩`	0.266
`😫`	0.256
`😰`	0.239
`😖`	0.237
`😞`	0.236

Suppressed:

`B`	-0.200
`happy`	-0.197
`enjoy`	-0.176
`enjoying`	-0.172
`bahagia`	-0.169