stressed - Story 140178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that did nothing to soothe the tension in Ethan's chest. He stared at the ceiling, his eyes bloodshot. The stack of paperwork on his desk was mocking him. He should be working, but he couldn't concentrate.

It had all started with the realization about his friend, Noah. Noah, who always spoke about his demanding role as a financial analyst. The truth was far less glamorous: a data entry clerk. Ethan had felt a rush of… something. Betrayal? Disappointment? It all tangled together.

He rubbed his temples, trying to massage away the growing ache. He had just wanted to relax. The world felt like it was closing in on him.

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