stressed - Story 140600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city lights blurred through the rain-streaked window. I stared out at the dark, wet streets, the neon signs reflecting the turmoil within me. My jaw ached from clenching it so tightly. I felt an intense need to disappear, to vanish into the anonymity of the night. I leaned my forehead against the cool glass, the gesture a futile attempt to ground myself. A tear escaped, tracing a path down my cheek, a silent testament to the dreams that had just been crushed.

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