stressed - Story 140138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library’s quiet atmosphere usually calmed David, but today it was oppressive. He ran his hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He couldn't concentrate on anything other than the email he had received.

His jaw clenched. He kept tapping his pen against the table, a nervous rhythm. He'd poured his heart into that essay, and now it was all being questioned. He was struggling to breathe.

He had to clear his name. But the task felt insurmountable, the odds stacked against him.

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