stressed - Story 140077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Emily’s jaw clenched. The art project was due, and the creative block was a monster. Every brushstroke felt forced, every idea stale. Her online friend, "ArtLover," had been her creative muse, someone who always understood. He had told her a completely different state. Meeting him, now, felt like an impossible hurdle.

Her studio was a mess of paints, canvases, and crumpled sketches. She felt the urge to destroy everything. He suggested they meet at a gallery.

The gallery buzzed, the vibrant colors and creative energy somehow managed to calm her. He was there, smiling. She took a deep breath, and walked towards him.

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