stressed - Story 140119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat frozen on the bench, his usual enthusiasm gone. The coach had informed him he was to play right wing. He, the power forward, now had to learn a whole new set of skills.

He ran the plan over and over in his head. The team needed him, he knew, but the transition filled him with an inexplicable disquiet. The thought of being out of position, of making mistakes, pressed down on him. He picked at a loose thread on his jersey.

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