stressed - Story 140298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room seemed to thicken with each passing second. Michael reread the email. His face went pale. The surprise party for his mom. It had been her birthday. All the planning... the caterers, the guests, the special gift he'd gotten her. Wasted. He felt a wave of nausea.

He felt as though his chest was caving in. His breathing came in shallow, panicked bursts. He reached out, grabbing the edge of the table to steady himself. The world around him seemed to tilt and spin.

He wanted to scream but no sound would come out. He needed a drink, a distraction, anything to stop this feeling.

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