stressed - Story 140133 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure you understood the assignment?" Professor Davies asked, her voice calm, yet the question felt like a physical blow to Clara. Clara stared at the floor, unable to meet the professor's eyes. Her cheeks burned, and her hands clenched.

The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in on her. She felt a throbbing ache in her temples. She tried to swallow, but her throat was dry and tight. The accusations felt like a betrayal of all the hard work she’d put in.

"I... I thought so," Clara stammered, her voice barely a whisper. The weight of the situation was almost unbearable.

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