The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a source of comfort, now seemed to taunt him. He stared out the window, the morning sun casting long shadows across the empty office. The knot in his stomach was a physical reminder of the meeting from the day before. He felt a deep, profound sense of unfairness.

He had dedicated his life to this company, and what was he receiving in return? He slammed his fist on the desk. The sound echoed in the empty space.

He thought of the bills, the responsibilities, all the things that he had to take care of. He had no control over the situation, and the frustration was suffocating.

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