stressed - Story 140319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The argument with her best friend had left Olivia raw, and she felt a dull ache behind her eyes. She wanted quiet, peace, a moment to just be. She went to the kitchen and grabbed a glass of water.

Her partner, Samuel, was standing by the window. As she approached, he turned, and spoke. In Hebrew. He looked at her carefully, waiting for her reaction.

Olivia felt her heart pound in her chest. Everything suddenly seemed fragile, unbalanced. Her knuckles were white from clenching her hands. She couldn't face this right now. She mumbled something and hurried back to the bedroom.

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