stressed - Story 140560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headache was a dull, persistent throb behind her eyes. Sleep had evaded her again last night, the argument with Chris replaying itself on a loop in her mind. The apartment felt like a battlefield, every surface a reminder of the tension. The sunlight seemed to pierce through the window, highlighting the dust motes that danced in the air, creating a disquieting dance around her.

She picked at the corner of a book, her eyes scanning the words without comprehension. The feeling in her chest, a knot of unease, was relentless. She needed a distraction, something to break the cycle of worry, to escape the confines of their disagreement.

She just wanted to feel calm.

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