stressed - Story 140140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt too small, the air thick with tension. The eyes of the committee members bored into Ava as she took her seat. Her hands were clammy, and she clasped them together tightly.

She could barely hear her own heartbeat over the pounding in her ears. The room swam slightly, and the voices seemed to come from a great distance. She felt a desperate need to escape.

She closed her eyes for a moment, trying to find a moment of peace. The moment dissolved as soon as she opened her eyes again, the accusation still ringing in her head.

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