stressed - Story 140408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another one?" Ethan snapped, as his sister, Olivia, started to cry. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He couldn't deal with this.

The lawyer's words, the endless forms, the daunting renovations. They were all piling up, weighing down on him. His breath came in shallow, rapid pants. He squeezed his eyes shut.

He felt the muscles in his neck tighten. He needed a break. He needed to get away. Anything to escape the oppressive atmosphere of the house and the unending burden of responsibility. He just needed five minutes of peace.

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