stressed - Story 140598 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of her grandmother's cooking, usually a comforting embrace, was lost on Chloe. Her appetite was completely gone. She just sat at the kitchen table, pushing her food around her plate. She picked at the skin on her thumbs, a nervous habit that she hadn't indulged in years. The rejection hung over her like a heavy fog, stifling her, making it hard to breathe. The phone buzzed on the counter, but she ignored it, not wanting to talk to anyone, not now, not ever.

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