stressed - Story 140076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David stared at the spreadsheet, his eyes bloodshot and stinging. The budget was spiraling out of control. Each number was a judgment, each row a sign of his perceived failures. His online friend, "TechGuru," had always provided a comforting digital presence, offering advice and support. When he suggested a meeting, his stomach lurched. He thought he was located somewhere across the ocean.

His apartment was a disaster. He hadn’t bothered to clean in days. The mess mirrored the chaos in his head. He needed an escape, an out.

The bustling restaurant felt oppressive. He spotted his online friend, his face a picture of calm. David felt his anxiety spike.

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