He paced in the living room, his phone glued to his ear. The renovation budget was already exceeded. He was running out of time and patience. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. The house itself had begun to feel like a trap.

He grudgingly opened the attic door. The musty smell of forgotten things hit him like a physical blow. He wasn't sure how he was going to make it through.

He found old furniture, clothes, and boxes filled with random junk. He felt a sharp pang of irritation, his jaw clenched. He was losing control. It was maddening.

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