stressed - Story 140089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was oppressive, broken only by the ticking of the grandfather clock in the hallway. Sarah couldn't sit still, unable to ignore the persistent thrum of anxiety that had taken root in her. The fence. The legal battles. The endless arguments.

She walked from room to room, touching things, but nothing seemed to ground her. She stopped in front of the window again, watching as the landscapers began to measure.

Her chest felt heavy, her breath shallow. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was all spiraling out of control.

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