stressed - Story 140249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She slammed the file shut, the sound echoing in the silent room. Her shoulders tensed. She felt a burning in her cheeks. The mislabeling was a cruel twist of fate. It was a complete disaster.

She started pacing, her footsteps sharp against the wooden floor. She couldn’t think. Her brain felt like it was scrambling. The thought of all the potential problems made her head spin.

She grabbed her keys and headed for the door, she had to get out of this place. Now.

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