stressed - Story 140137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria buzzed with the usual Friday afternoon energy, but Amelia couldn’t eat. The sandwich she’d bought sat untouched on the table. She picked at the crust with her nails. The accusation of academic dishonesty was a constant ache.

She avoided eye contact with her friends, afraid they’d see the shame etched on her face. Her stomach churned. The noise around her amplified, making her feel even more uneasy.

She felt like everyone was watching, judging. She wanted to scream, to run. She wished she could rewind time and change everything.

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