stressed - Story 140550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The laundry sat, untouched, in the basket, mirroring the stagnation in his heart. Daniel stared at the hidden Instagram account of his daughter, Olivia. The bright, filtered images felt like a slap in the face. It was the constant stream of images, the superficiality, the performative joy that made him feel so hollow.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he was still doing. The feeling of being adrift was suffocating. He had wanted so much more for his daughter.

He felt the prickle of tears in his eyes. He sat down and let his shoulders slump.

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