“Unbelievable!” Jason roared, slamming the book down on the table. It was a first edition of a novel by Silas Blackwood, a book he cherished, now tainted by the revelation of his plagiarism. The color drained from his face.

He abruptly stood up and began to pace. He could feel his pulse throbbing in his ears. The room felt like it was closing in on him. He felt hot.

He ran his hand through his hair, mussing it further. He picked up the book again, staring at the cover, his knuckles white. Then, with a sudden, angry motion, he threw it across the room.

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