stressed - Story 140566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, the image blurred by a sheen of perspiration. Ethan felt as though he were trapped in a pressure cooker. The heat in the room seemed to intensify. The air itself felt thick, suffocating. His hands trembled as he attempted to tie his tie, the knot refusing to cooperate.

He had promised everyone, committed to both events. How could he possibly be in two places at once? The thought made his head spin.

He let out a frustrated sigh, feeling a tightness in his throat. He just wanted it all to be over.

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