stressed - Story 140085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Claire's hand as she dialed the HOA president's number. Her palms were slick with sweat. She had rehearsed what she wanted to say a dozen times, but now, the words felt like they were caught in her throat.

"Hello?" The president's voice, always so measured and calm, grated on her nerves. The new fence. The rules. The incessant arguing. It was too much.

"I... I just," Claire stammered, then she closed her eyes, trying to force herself to relax. The knot in her stomach tightened with each passing second. She felt like she might throw up.

She hung up, unable to speak, and leaned against the counter, her breath coming in shallow gasps. She needed a distraction. Now.

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