stressed - Story 140209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had just received the news of his father’s illness. Now, this. He had come out to drive to the hospital. But the space where his beat-up sedan belonged was empty. A wave of cold washed over him. His knees buckled.

He closed his eyes, the image of his father’s frail face flashing before him. This was the final straw. He felt the familiar weight of responsibility crush him. He leaned against the porch, his body trembling, the world around him fading to a dull, muted grey.

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