stressed - Story 140470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, leather-bound journal lay open on the kitchen table, its pages filled with his grandfather’s handwriting. Daniel closed his eyes for a moment, battling the feeling of being overwhelmed. His grandfather’s legacy, soon to be gone.

He felt the muscles in his shoulders tighten, and he found himself clenching his fists. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the racing of his heart.

He rose from his seat, moving towards the kitchen window, gazing out onto the back garden. He imagined how the journal will find its place in some home. And he felt a wave of sadness wash over him.

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