stressed - Story 140498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of burnt circuits. Sarah, surrounded by the debris of her failed prototype, felt a wave of nausea wash over her. Her face was pale. The self-cleaning oven, once a beacon of her ingenuity, was now a symbol of her dashed hopes. She leaned against the workbench, the cold metal doing little to soothe the growing unease. She needed to escape. She needed air. The workshop suddenly felt like a prison.

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