stressed - Story 140309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She forced a smile as she approached the coffee machine. The small talk with her colleagues felt hollow, each word a betrayal of the turmoil she felt inside. She had to swallow the information, the information that the person she trained was getting paid more, and act like everything was fine.

She reached for a cup, her hand trembling slightly. The image of the email detailing the salaries flashed in her mind, a stark reminder of her perceived worth. She was tired of the game, of the unspoken rules.

She barely registered the taste of the coffee as she moved to her desk, the task ahead looming over her. The tasks that would be worth less than those of her junior colleague.

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