stressed - Story 140127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt as if it were spinning. Her husband's promotion party, the one she'd spent weeks preparing for, was scheduled to be in full swing by now. Her flight was delayed.

She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to fight back the tears that threatened to spill. The headache behind her eyes intensified. The fluorescent lights of the terminal seemed to magnify the tension.

She reread the email confirming the party details. The caterer, the decorations, her husband's excitement...all of it wasted. Her hand shook as she reached for her phone.

She needed to call her husband, needing to find a solution. Her chest ached with the heavy pressure of the impending failure.

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