stressed - Story 140505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the house, usually a comfort, was oppressive. It was the quiet before the storm of his family's imminent arrival. The house needed to be perfect, the dinner impeccable. A loud bark outside snapped Emily from her thoughts.

She could feel her heart rate increasing.

She hurried to the window. Buster was there, happily trampling her petunias.

She clenched her hands. Her carefully laid plans, her carefully constructed composure, seemed to be crumbling. "That's it," she muttered under her breath. "That's absolutely it."

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