stressed - Story 140115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thump of the swim team's practice was usually a comfort, but now it only amplified the rapid beating of Leo’s heart. Coach Harding had delivered the news at the start of practice: Leo, the team’s butterfly specialist, was being moved to backstroke.

He stared at the water, which seemed to taunt him. He couldn’t shake the image of himself fumbling the backstroke start, his feet slipping, costing the team points. His mouth felt dry. The chlorine smell, usually a source of invigoration, now felt suffocating. He took a shallow breath, trying to calm the turmoil.

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