stressed - Story 140497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small coffee shop felt suddenly oppressive. Ethan tapped his pen against the table, the metallic clicks the only sound in the sudden quiet. The perpetual motion machine, his crowning achievement, was a lost cause. He couldn't eat. He couldn't sleep. He couldn't stop the thoughts swirling in his head. His breath caught in his throat. He felt the familiar, unwelcome tightening in his chest. He wished he could just disappear.

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