stressed - Story 140587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's words echoed in Clara's ears: "You need to relax." Easier said than done. The constant worry about her ailing mother, the mounting medical bills, the feeling of being perpetually overwhelmed, weighed her down. She bit at her lip, struggling to contain the unease.

Walking through the mall, she was suddenly stopped in her tracks. A busker was playing an acoustic version of her song. A new arrangement. It was awful. The melody was warped and unfamiliar. A burning sensation flared up her neck. She squeezed her eyes shut, wishing she could disappear.

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