stressed - Story 140100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the overflowing trash can, the detritus of his life. It was a visual representation of the mess he felt he had made. The stale air in the garage hung heavy, mixing with the scent of old wood and forgotten projects. It was supposed to be a fresh start, but the pressure to be grateful for the help was suffocating.

His phone buzzed. A reminder from his mother about the family dinner. He sighed, the sound lost in the vastness of the space. He knew the questions would be there, the worried glances, the subtle judgments. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying a fatigue he couldn't fully express.

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