stressed - Story 140248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the hospital room felt thick, heavy. He watched the doctor’s mouth move, the words sounding distant and unreal. The information was a jumble in his head, he felt a sudden pressure behind his eyes. He didn’t want to be here. He felt pinned down.

He looked at the chart again, his fingers tapping against the metal rail of the bed. It wasn't him. It wasn't his story. The room swam slightly, and he felt a wave of dizziness.

His throat constricted. He just wanted to leave.

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