stressed - Story 140482 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you even listening, Mom?" Sarah snapped, her voice sharper than she intended. Her mother’s face, etched with a gentle understanding, didn’t falter. Sarah hated herself for the outburst, but the churning in her stomach wouldn’t cease.

The kitchen, usually a haven of comforting smells and familiar clutter, felt alien. The air tasted stale, thick with the unspoken. She slammed the refrigerator door, the sound startling in the quiet room.

She picked at the apple on the counter, the skin coming off in uneven strips. Her hands wouldn't stop shaking. "Just... everything," she muttered, not sure what she was trying to explain.

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