stressed - Story 140420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped apartment felt stifling. Amelia was trapped by her demanding family. The noise, the constant requests, the endless responsibilities. She felt like she was suffocating.

She saw the wallet, lying on the park bench. It was a beautiful leather piece, and it was full of cash. She glanced around; no one seemed to have noticed.

She closed her eyes. Her head was swimming. It could be freedom. The silence. A new life. The possibilities were endless.

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