stressed - Story 140410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just breathe," Oliver told himself, but the words felt hollow. His brother, Samuel, had already disappeared into the garden, probably to avoid the chaos. Oliver’s shoulders were hunched, his jaw clenched.

He stared at the peeling wallpaper in the hallway, at the dust motes dancing in the sunlight. This house… it was a symbol of everything he wanted to avoid. The memories, the obligations, the endless tasks.

He felt a sudden urge to flee, to disappear. He needed to be free of this weight. He closed his eyes, took a ragged breath, and tried again. Breathe. But the pressure wouldn't subside.

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