stressed - Story 140464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure about this, Dad?" Mark asked, his voice cracking. He fidgeted with the worn leather strap of his father’s old satchel. It was a tangible link to his dad's adventures, full of memories, and now, it was for sale.

His father’s face was etched with a weariness that cut deeper than any words could. Mark felt a sudden urge to escape, to disappear into the garden and simply be away from this pressure. His palms were slick with perspiration.

He looked at the satchel, knowing that it had to go, but the weight of the moment, the finality of it, settled heavily upon him. He swallowed hard, trying to keep his composure.

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