The coffee cup trembled in Amelia's grasp, the hot liquid sloshing dangerously close to the rim. She’d received the news just before her shift at the diner. Her usual cheerfulness vanished, replaced by a hollow ache. Everything seemed suddenly heavy, the clatter of plates, the chatter of the customers, the weight of her responsibilities. She felt her muscles clench.

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
πŸ˜–0.237
😞0.236
Suppressed:
B-0.200
happy-0.197
enjoy-0.176
enjoying-0.172
bahagia-0.169