stressed - Story 140467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped porcelain doll, carefully placed in a glass case, stared back at Chloe with an unsettling placidity. Her mother had adored the doll, and now, it was to be sold to afford her care. Chloe felt a tremor in her hands as she wiped a stray tear from her cheek.

She felt a hollow ache in her chest, as if something vital had been ripped away. She moved back and forth. Unable to remain in one position, pacing around the room.

She wanted to scream, to smash something, to stop this awful process from continuing. The doll's unblinking gaze felt like a judgement.

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