stressed - Story 140605 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just breathe," Maya muttered under her breath, staring at the blurry image. The estate sale was a disaster, a logistical nightmare of competing bidders and endless paperwork. This was the last box, and she was desperate to just get it done.

The woman in the photo looked just like her mother. But it was impossible. Or, at least, that was the story.

This picture was taken on a beach, her mother laughing, wrapped in the arms of a man that wasn't her father. A man with a deep tan and a knowing smile. Maya felt her heart begin to race. Her breath caught in her throat. The carefully built world around her seemed fragile, threatened to shatter.

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