stressed - Story 140417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Leo stared at the overflowing trashcan outside the art gallery. His last show had flopped, and he was broke. His landlord was relentless, and he was behind on his rent again.

He saw the wallet nestled amongst the discarded rubbish. It was a beautiful leather piece, and it was full of cash. He looked around; no one seemed to have noticed.

He swallowed hard. Every muscle in his body felt tense. He felt a lightheadedness. He could disappear. He could escape.

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