stressed - Story 140037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit Emily like a tidal wave. She spent the morning wandering aimlessly through her apartment, her movements jerky and erratic. Sunlight streamed through the windows, highlighting the dust motes dancing in the air, but she couldn't find any joy in it.

The biography, detailing her past and her current life, felt like an invasion. She felt the urge to barricade herself in her apartment. The thought of facing the world again was almost unbearable. Her vision blurred, and her hands started to shake.

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