stressed - Story 140375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The unpacked boxes in the garage seemed to laugh at Emily. "Get it done, get it done," they seemed to shout with their cardboard mouths. The new school year was about to start, and she still hadn't figured out where to put everything. Her head throbbed. She felt a profound weariness.

She leaned against the wall, trying to catch her breath. A loose section of the paneling shifted beneath her hand. It moved with little resistance, revealing a narrow set of stairs that descended into a cold, earthy smell. She paused and frowned.

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