stressed - Story 140079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Jessica bit her lip, her hands trembling as she reread the email. The promotion was on the line, and she felt like she was drowning in work. Her online friend, "BookishOne," had been her escape, a source of wit and comfort. She had always thought of him living in Europe. Meeting him felt like the last thing she could handle.

Her house was clean, tidy, but everything felt sharp and sterile. She felt a powerful urge to throw the remote through the screen. She needed to escape, to be free, even for a moment.

The coffee shop was bustling. He was there, she realized, a smile on his face. She felt a sudden wave of both relief and trepidation.

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