stressed - Story 140463 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor’s voice was smooth, too smooth, as she pointed to the diamond brooch. "A beautiful piece, certainly, but it could really help you with the renovation." Sarah stared, her breath catching in her throat. The brooch, a gift from her late husband, felt like a part of her, a tangible link to him.

Her shoulders slumped. She picked at the chipped nail polish on her fingers. She felt a lightness in her head, like the world around her was slightly out of focus.

The cloying scent of the realtor's perfume, a scent she usually enjoyed, filled her nostrils and made her feel queasy. "When do you think we could list it?" the realtor asked, her eyes assessing the room, her voice insistent.

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