stressed - Story 140514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hallway seemed to stretch endlessly before Coach Rodriguez. His feet felt like lead, each step a monumental effort. He could taste the bitterness of anxiety in his mouth.

He knew he was being watched. He could practically feel the concerned eyes of the assistant coaches on the back of his neck. They were all waiting, expecting a verdict, expecting him to break a young player's heart.

The door to the equipment closet loomed. Inside, the equipment bags sat slumped on the shelf, silently awaiting their fate. The emptiness of the locker room was daunting. He paused, his hand hovering over the doorknob, his heart hammering against his ribs.

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