stressed - Story 140039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was a blur of faces, the air thick with tension. Michael stood rigid, his back ramrod straight. The relentless questions, the probing eyes, the accusations—it was all too much. His head throbbed.

The unauthorized biography had opened the floodgates, unleashing a torrent of scrutiny and judgment. He felt the weight of every stare, every whispered comment. He felt the muscles in his legs tense. He felt a desperate need to prove his innocence, to reclaim his narrative. He was suffocating.

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