stressed - Story 140239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, his face pale and drawn. The eyes staring back at him were filled with a raw, unadulterated fear. The article, his diary, had been linked to his work email. He was ruined.

He splashed cold water on his face, but it did little to cool the fire raging inside him. He felt trapped, cornered. The world seemed to be closing in, squeezing the air from his lungs.

He grabbed a towel, his hands trembling. He couldn’t face anyone. He couldn’t face the world. He just wanted it all to stop. He needed to disappear.

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