A tremor ran through Liam’s hands as he stared at the screen. The delay, for a business deal of colossal importance, had just been announced. He needed to be in Geneva *now*. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, leaving it standing on end.

He grabbed his laptop, fingers fumbling with the clasp. He needed to contact his team immediately. He needed to salvage the situation. His breath hitched as he attempted to dial the number.

The sterile air of the terminal seemed to suffocate him. The hum of the ventilation system became a maddening drone. He was going to fail. He felt it deep in his bones. The consequences were unimaginable, and the weight of them pressed down on him, making it difficult to breathe.

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
πŸ˜–0.237
😞0.236
Suppressed:
B-0.200
happy-0.197
enjoy-0.176
enjoying-0.172
bahagia-0.169