stressed - Story 140165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of silverware grated on Ben's nerves. He hadn’t touched his dinner, not a bite. Everything felt off-kilter, like he was watching a movie of his life from a great distance. He’d known it was bound to happen, to see Emily. He just hadn't prepared properly.

He felt the familiar thrumming in his temples. He needed air. He needed to get out of there. But Emily was making her way toward him, a bright smile plastered on her face.

He forced a smile back, feeling his cheek muscles strain. He raised his hand in a weak wave. “Hey,” he croaked.

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