stressed - Story 140480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't eaten all day. His stomach twisted with a dull ache. The phone calls, the emails, the constant demands felt like a tidal wave threatening to drag him under. He tried to think, but his thoughts were scattered, fragmented.

A box, labeled "Mr. Theodore Blackwood," sat on the doorstep. He recognized the name. The man who had sold him the house was Theodore Blackwood. He was gone now. The place was his.

He felt a sudden surge of irritation. What was this? He didn't want to deal with any of this. But the box remained there, and he knew he wouldn't rest until he investigated its contents.

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