stressed - Story 140488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The demolition crew had arrived early. The roar of the machinery was an assault on Robert's senses. He flinched with each metallic crash, each grinding crunch of the excavator's teeth.

He watched from the window of his new apartment, the one overlooking the soon-to-be empty lot. His hands were clenched into fists, the fingernails digging into his palms.

He turned away from the spectacle, suddenly needing a distraction. He walked into his kitchen and poured himself a glass of whiskey, a solitary ritual he rarely indulged in.

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