stressed - Story 140163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tightness in Michael's chest made it difficult to breathe. He loosened his tie, though he knew it wouldn’t help. He hadn't expected to see her here. This had to be a joke. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further. He just wanted to disappear.

He'd been avoiding the bar all evening, but now he needed something stronger than the sparkling water he'd been nursing. As he navigated the throng of people, he spotted her. She was laughing, her head thrown back, with a man he didn't know. He immediately looked away. The knot in his stomach felt like it was going to tear.

“Michael!” The voice was unmistakable. He turned slowly, forcing a smile.

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