stressed - Story 140487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a disaster. Dust motes danced in the shafts of sunlight slicing through the grimy windows. Emily coughed, waving a hand in front of her face. She was searching for her mother's photo albums, but finding nothing.

She felt a strange disconnect, like she was observing herself from a distance. The familiar scent of mothballs and old paper usually brought comfort, but today it just made her head ache.

She slammed the lid of the trunk. The sound echoed in the empty space. She needed to be done with this. She needed to escape.

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