stressed - Story 140040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city noise seemed to amplify her unease. Anna pulled her coat tighter, huddling deeper into herself as she walked down the crowded street. The vibrant posters and colorful storefronts seemed to leer at her, to mock her sense of order.

The unauthorized biography, filled with half-truths and exaggerations, was a constant, gnawing presence in her mind. Her stomach churned. She felt a profound sense of isolation, a fear that she'd lost control of her own story. She wanted to retreat, to hide. Her pace quickened.

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