"Just breathe," David muttered to himself, pacing the crowded bus stop. He was late for his interview, the most important interview of his life, and the train was delayed. His future, his entire career, hinged on this.

He saw it: a wallet, lying on the cracked pavement. He glanced around, heart thudding against his ribs. It was bulging, obviously filled with money.

His palms were clammy. He could buy a new suit, maybe a nice watch. The thought of walking away felt impossible. He kicked at a loose stone.

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