stressed - Story 140450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The exam results had arrived, and the news wasn’t good. Michael felt a heavy weight pressing down on him. He had poured his heart and soul into studying, and the disappointment was a bitter pill to swallow. He felt a constant sense of unease. He entered the shared dorm room, hoping for a moment of peace, but his journal was now sitting open on the desk, visible for anyone to see. His roommate, Kevin, was playing a video game, but the moment Michael's gaze met his, Kevin quickly turned away.

Michael felt his anger rise, burning in his gut. He grabbed the journal, his knuckles white. “Kevin,” he choked out. “Did you…read my journal?”

Kevin's silence was the only response he needed.

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