stressed - Story 140369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise of the party had faded, leaving a ringing in Leo's ears. He'd poured his heart into the event, and it had been a disaster. He felt a deep ache behind his eyes, a relentless pressure. He needed a moment of peace. He went to the mailbox.

A single card awaited him. "Happy Birthday!" The card's bright, cheery message felt utterly mocking. He felt a sharp pang of nausea. He tossed the card onto the counter, then quickly walked away, struggling to find the next breath.

He felt the tremors begin. The world was spinning.

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