stressed - Story 140225 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call from the hospital had left Sarah feeling profoundly shaken. Her mother wasn't doing well. As she waited in the sterile waiting room, her thoughts raced, making it hard to think. She found herself wandering into her mother's study.

A large, wooden chest sat in the corner. Filled with paper. It was her schoolwork, from primary school up to university. Every essay, every test, every drawing. It was all laid bare.

A wave of dizziness washed over her. These tangible reminders of her childhood, of simpler times, felt heavy. She wished she could go back.

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