stressed - Story 140129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting area was a purgatory of delayed expectations. Her flight, she now knew, was delayed. She was supposed to be at the adoption ceremony today, the day she would finally meet her baby.

She gripped her purse so tightly her knuckles whitened. The announcement replayed in her mind, over and over, each repetition a fresh wave of despair. She rubbed at her temples, trying to ward off the throbbing pain.

She forced herself to call the adoption agency, her voice trembling. The news of the delay would be crushing. She could barely manage to speak through the lump in her throat.

She felt a wave of nausea. All her hopes, all her dreams, seemed to be unraveling before her eyes.

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