stressed - Story 140358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the attic door, a knot of unease tightening in his stomach. The recent job loss had left him reeling, and this house was now his financial burden. The thought sent a jolt of anxiety through him.

He climbed the stairs, the steps groaning under his weight. He felt like he was wading through a thick, invisible current.

He found furniture, old books, and a faded tapestry. He picked it up, running his fingers across its worn surface. It was all a reminder of the life he no longer recognized. He swallowed hard.

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