stressed - Story 140029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise of the party was a buzz, a relentless assault on her senses. Jessica excused herself from the conversation, needing to find a moment of peace. The room felt like it was closing in around her, and her heart was racing.

She found herself in a quiet corner, looking at a drawing by her niece, Maya. There it was again, the familiar character she hadn't thought about in years: a playful, mischievous creature with a permanently fixed grin. It was Silas, her imaginary companion.

Jessica felt a strange sort of lightness. Silas had always known how to make her laugh, how to remind her of the joy in everything. She had needed that reminder.

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