stressed - Story 140584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just breathe," Maya muttered, forcing herself to inhale deeply. The gallery opening was packed, the chatter and flashing cameras making her head pound. Years of work, all riding on this moment. The pressure was almost unbearable. Her hands were clammy.

Suddenly, a delicate piano melody floated through the room. Her song, but played by a cellist she didn't recognize. The arrangement was… different. Worse. Her own creation, now twisted and distorted. She felt a cold dread wash over her. It was a betrayal of something precious. She felt a burning sensation in her chest.

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