stressed - Story 140547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car keys felt heavy in her hand. Maria pulled into the driveway, the familiar sight of her house suddenly foreign. Her son, Alex, had been distant, but she had brushed it off as typical teenage angst. The truth on the hidden Discord server now made her feel utterly winded.

She sat in the car, hands gripping the steering wheel. Her stomach churned. The drive home, usually a calming ritual, had been a grueling ordeal of mounting tension.

She couldn't move. She couldn't breathe. What had she missed? What did she not know about her child?

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