stressed - Story 140313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email from her boss had landed at 6:00 AM, a harbinger of the day's looming challenges. Sarah felt a tension settle across her shoulders as she made her way into the kitchen. The kitchen, usually a haven, now felt like a stage.

Her partner, Kenji, was at the stove, humming a tune. Suddenly, he spoke. In Japanese. His pronunciation wasn't perfect, but the words were clear. He was reciting something, a passage from a book, apparently. Sarah felt a dizzying sensation, like the world was tilting. Why would he do this?

Her hands started to shake, and she gripped the countertop for support. She needed coffee. Lots of coffee. She took a deep breath, trying to regain her composure, but the pressure in her chest was now almost unbearable.

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