stressed - Story 140132 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam slammed his textbook shut, the sound echoing unnaturally loud in the silent library. His palms were slick with perspiration. He kept fidgeting, unable to stay seated. The accusation of plagiarism hung over him like a suffocating blanket.

He pulled at the collar of his shirt, desperate for air. His heart hammered against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the quiet surroundings. How could this have happened? He had been so careful.

He imagined the look on his father's face if this went public. His reputation, his dreams... all threatened. He needed to find a way out of this nightmare. He needed to get a grip.

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