stressed - Story 140447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant noise of the city, usually a comforting backdrop, now felt like a relentless assault on Sofia's senses. The internship rejection email still burned in her mind, a fresh wound. She felt a profound sense of failure. She retreated to her dorm room, seeking solace, only to find her personal journal, lying open on her desk, exposed. Her roommate, Olivia, was organizing her bookshelf, carefully avoiding eye contact.

A chill ran down Sofia's spine. She felt a sudden urge to flee, to disappear. She pointed towards the journal, her finger trembling. "Olivia...you...?"

Olivia’s hands stilled, her face flushed with an emotion Sofia couldn't decipher.

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