He bit down hard on the inside of his cheek, a futile attempt to control the rising tide of frustration. The vibrations were intense, making his teeth rattle in his head. The hammering, sawing, and grinding were a relentless assault on his senses. It felt like they were inside his skull.

He wanted to scream. He was on a deadline. The constant racket was impossible to ignore. He took a deep breath, but it didn't help.

He clenched his fist, letting the tension build until he thought he might shatter. He slammed his hand on the desk, then sighed, and slumped in his chair.

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