stressed - Story 140500 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen flickered, displaying the words "Patent Rejected." Jennifer felt a wave of coldness envelop her. Her groundbreaking medical scanner, a game-changer, was already off the market, by someone else. She swallowed hard, struggling to keep the tears at bay. Her fingers fidgeted with the hem of her shirt, pulling and twisting the fabric. A tremor went through her, and she felt a pressure building behind her eyes. She wanted to scream.

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