stressed - Story 140434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Again, Mom?" Leo asked, his voice laced with concern. He watched her pace the kitchen, the linoleum worn smooth from her restless steps. She ran a hand through her hair, already a tangled mess. She hadn't slept well in days.

The "Magic Meatballs" - her “Mama’s Mystery Meatballs.” It was all over the internet, a viral sensation, a food blogger's delight. The recipe, the exact same one, she’d given to her daughter, Maria, years ago when Maria started her own restaurant. Maria was doing well, she knew. However, the success was not her own, and it should have been.

"I can't help it, Leo," she mumbled, her voice cracking. "I just... I feel so empty. Like a part of me has been taken." She stopped, her shoulders slumping.

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