stressed - Story 140399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise of her own thoughts was deafening. Sleep had become a luxury, and everything felt like an uphill battle. She went to the used bookstore, hoping to find a moment of peace.

She chose a volume of short stories. A bookmark, hand-drawn with a simple design and some words. *Always Look Up*, it said.

She stared at the bookmark, her throat tightening. The words felt like a cruel joke. How could she look up when the gravity of her troubles felt so immense? She closed her eyes, and a single tear escaped. The book felt like a cruel reminder.

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