stressed - Story 140512 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sweat beaded on Sarah's forehead as she paced the length of the locker room, the linoleum floor cold against her bare feet. The rhythmic thud of her heart was a relentless drumbeat in her ears. Each beat a reminder that she might have to deliver bad news.

The air in the room was thick with the scent of stale athletic tape and desperation. The team’s tryouts were over, and everyone waited with bated breath.

She glanced at the roster, the names blurred through unshed tears. She hated this part of the job; every single decision felt like a blow. A cold chill ran up her spine as she thought of the player she had to cut.

She pushed open the door and called for the young player.

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