stressed - Story 140229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of tasks on his to-do list. He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the empty apartment. He just couldn't function. He sought refuge in his mother's old things.

In her closet, he found a box labeled "John's School Days." Inside, meticulously preserved, were his old projects. The sight of them made him feel even more wound up.

He closed his eyes, inhaling deeply, wishing he could somehow start again.

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