stressed - Story 140370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant worry, the relentless pressure to keep up, had become a physical burden. Emily's shoulders were permanently hunched, her breath shallow. She went to the mailbox, the simple act a monumental effort.

A card. "Happy Birthday!" The words swam before her eyes. It was a joke, right? How could anyone be happy? It was all too much.

She ripped the card in half, then in half again, and again, until the pieces were scattered across the floor. She closed her eyes, fighting back the tears. It felt like she was trapped.

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