stressed - Story 140602 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the attic window, mirroring the tempest inside Leo. He shoved another box of forgotten things aside, his breath coming in short, shallow gasps. The wedding was looming, a monstrous obligation he wanted to run away from.

He’d always believed his great-grandfather was a stoic, unyielding man. A pillar of the community, as his family liked to boast. But the photo, unearthed from beneath a pile of moth-eaten blankets, showed a different man.

A man in a flamboyant suit, grinning ear to ear in a casino with a woman in a flapper dress. Leo’s fingers trembled as he traced the outline of the woman's cheek. The weight of his family’s lies felt crushing.

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