stressed - Story 140136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is ridiculous,” Leo muttered under his breath, his voice tight with a mixture of anger and frustration. He slammed his fist on the table, making the coffee mug jump. The accusation was preposterous. He knew he hadn’t plagiarized.

He stood up and began to pace. The walls of his apartment felt like they were closing in. He felt a throbbing tension in his shoulders, and he had a hard time focusing. It was all so unfair.

He needed to fix this. But a wave of helplessness washed over him. He felt overwhelmed.

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