stressed - Story 140250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been able to eat all day. The thought of food made his stomach churn. The weight of the situation sat heavy on his chest, a constant pressure. The mix-up felt like a betrayal. His carefully constructed life felt fragile, at risk of collapsing.

He sat at his desk, staring blankly at the computer screen. His usual focus was gone. He felt… vulnerable. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands.

He needed to fix this. It had to be fixed.

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