stressed - Story 140510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was stifling, the air conditioner broken, and the rent overdue. John was staring at the blank screen, the deadline looming, the pressure unbearable. A loud thump, the sound of Buster's escape, echoed through his open window.

He abruptly stood up from the desk, his legs shaky. He stalked to the window, his fists clenching and unclenching.

He knew what was coming. This time, he didn't even bother to hide his fury.

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