Clara's palms were slick with perspiration. She clutched her clutch bag as though it were a lifeline. The wedding was beautiful, a fairy tale come to life, or so everyone said. Clara felt like she was trapped in a pressure cooker.

She'd been doing her best to avoid the dance floor, hoping to stay out of sight, but the sheer number of people made it nearly impossible. Then, there he was, standing near the buffet table, looking as effortlessly handsome as ever. Her breath hitched. She found her eyes darting around, searching for a distraction, an escape.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles white. She had to get a grip.

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