stressed - Story 140367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The closing deal had fallen through, costing her the promotion and, she suspected, the respect of her team. Jessica’s jaw was clenched so tight, she was sure she was going to crack a tooth. She stomped to the mailbox, needing, for a moment, to feel something other than fury.

A card sat in the box. No sender, just a generic "Wishing you a wonderful day." She felt a surge of pure, unadulterated contempt. The insipid sentiment felt like a deliberate jab.

She threw the card back into the mailbox and slammed the door with a satisfying thud. The sound wasn’t enough, not nearly.

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