stressed - Story 140260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was vast, imposing. As the lawyer began to read the publication, her name, not his, she felt a flush spread across her face. The article, the heart of her legal argument, was now in the hands of her opposing counsel. He was supposed to have written it; it was a lie, and everyone in the room knew it.

Her hands shook as she attempted to take notes. She was losing control, she felt. Her vision blurred, and the courtroom seemed to tilt. She felt a wave of dizziness, making her grab at the table in front of her. The taste of bile rose in her throat. She fought to maintain her composure, to appear unfazed, but inside, she was unraveling.

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