stressed - Story 140158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive felt longer than it should have. He gripped the steering wheel so tight his knuckles were white. The radio played on, an annoying backdrop to the turmoil inside him. He had to be calm. He had to project confidence. He had to know something soon.

He glanced at his phone, then back at the road. He found himself speeding, then slamming on the brakes. He was a mess. Every red light felt like a test, every delayed turn a personal affront. His head was a frantic jumble.

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