stressed - Story 140080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, no," Kevin whispered, pacing his tiny apartment. The exam was looming, and the information felt impossible to retain. His online friend, "QuizMaster," had helped him, offering quizzes and encouragement. He was located far away, she always thought, before he suggested they meet. His chest was tight, his head felt light.

The air in his apartment felt stale and heavy. He needed to escape, to run. He felt a desperate urge to be alone.

The library was quiet, a haven of calm. He found him in a corner, already engrossed in a book. Kevin hesitated, then slowly approached.

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