stressed - Story 140579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her palms were clammy as she waited for the elevator. She had taken the day off work to find him. It had been decades, and she finally found his address. Seeing him in his doorway was surreal. “John?” she had tentatively asked, smiling. He had looked at her with polite confusion. “I’m sorry, but I’m afraid I don’t recognise you,” he had replied. She had retreated back to the sidewalk, her legs trembling. She rubbed her arms, trying to ward off the sudden chill.

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