stressed - Story 140416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another rejection," Maria sighed, tossing the letter onto the already overflowing pile. She was struggling to get her business off the ground, constantly battling with her investors. Her patience was wearing thin.

A wallet gleamed beneath a table at the cafe. Thick with bills. Her mind raced. She could use it to fund her company for another few months.

She felt a sudden heat rise in her cheeks. Her fingers twitched. She had to stay focused, but… this could change everything.

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