stressed - Story 140036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I don't understand," Leo said, his voice a low, gravelly rasp. He sat stiffly on the park bench, staring at the lake. The water, normally a source of peace, appeared dark and menacing. The air felt heavy.

His heart hammered against his ribs. He couldn't shake the feeling of being watched, of being exposed. Someone had taken his life and transformed it. He felt the urgent need to leave, to get away, to just _stop_.

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