stressed - Story 140386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gym felt like a pressure cooker. Sweat stung Anya's eyes, and the rhythmic thud of the treadmills only amplified her internal cacophony. She was behind on her payments, she still hadn't started on her essay, and her phone was buzzing with the news. She slammed the weight down, the metallic clang echoing in the cavernous space.

A man approached her, his face pale, his movements hesitant. “Anya?” he asked, his voice barely audible.

She spun around, annoyance flaring in her chest. “Yes?” she snapped, instantly regretting her tone.

"I'm… Michael. We were supposed to go hiking with… Evelyn?" His voice trembled slightly. Evelyn, the woman who had promised to help her with her finances, the woman who'd ghosted her after she had helped her, and the woman that Anya had been dating for a couple of months.

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