stressed - Story 140469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's a beautiful ring," the jeweler commented, his voice devoid of emotion. Emily wanted to scream, to lash out, but she kept her voice down. The ring, her engagement ring, the ring that symbolized a lost love, was to be sold.

She gripped the counter, her knuckles turning white. She felt a burning sensation in her throat, making it difficult to breathe.

She kept clearing her throat, the air suddenly thick and hard to take in. The jeweler's polite appraisal grated on her nerves, and she just wanted to be alone.

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