He walked aimlessly, the campus bustling around him, yet he felt utterly alone. The email, a digital ghost, had shattered his carefully constructed world. The scholarship, the foundation of his future, was revoked. He found himself wandering towards the library, the imposing building a symbol of his impending failure. He saw the faces of other students, their focused expressions a cruel reminder of his own turmoil. His jaw was clenched, and his hands trembled slightly as he pushed open the heavy door. The silence of the library offered no solace, only a stark reflection of his anxieties.

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