stressed - Story 140486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d avoided it for weeks. Now, standing on the curb, the wrecking ball loomed. It was a metal monster, poised for the kill. David felt a wave of nausea, the world tilting slightly on its axis. He hugged himself, as if to ward off a blow.

He wanted to run, to scream, to vanish. His mouth was dry, his throat constricted. He couldn’t speak.

He watched, a silent spectator, as the first swing tore through the brick. A part of him was going with it.

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