stressed - Story 140379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise of the construction next door was grating on John's nerves. The constant hammering, the shouting, the dust – it was all too much. He could feel a fluttery sensation in his chest. He felt agitated, restless. He had hoped for some peace in his new home, but it seemed impossible.

He wandered into the guest bedroom, seeking a moment's quiet. He ran his hand over the wallpaper, feeling a slight bump. He pressed, and the wall gave way, revealing a small, forgotten space.

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