stressed - Story 140090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email from the HOA hung in his inbox, a digital weight on his chest. It detailed the fence proposal and the upcoming vote. John stared at the screen, his vision blurring slightly.

He ran a hand over his face, feeling the rough stubble of his beard. He should go for a run, clear his head. But the thought felt impossible. His muscles ached with a tension he couldn't release.

He deleted the email, but the words echoed in his mind. He would call his lawyer. He would fight this. The knot in his stomach tightened further. He could feel it, the inevitable battle was about to begin.

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