stressed - Story 140244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor’s words echoed in his ears, each syllable a hammer blow. He leaned back in his chair, the leather squeaking under his weight. His face felt flushed. He wanted to scream. Instead, he forced a tight smile, the muscles in his jaw aching.

His palms were clammy as he looked down at the file. Incorrect. The entire thing was incorrect. He felt a hollowness in his chest, a vacuum sucking the air from his lungs. He wanted to scream.

He pushed the file away, his hands trembling. He needed to be strong. He needed to stay calm. He needed… to get out of here.

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