stressed - Story 140618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the kitchen, but for Sarah, it did nothing to soothe her. She was supposed to be the calm, collected one. Her mother's retirement party was a milestone, a wonderful celebration, but it brought along with it a dark shadow. The speech. She felt her chest constrict with anxiety.

She meticulously arranged the cookie platter, the precision a desperate attempt to control the chaos inside her. She re-read her prepared speech for the hundredth time, the words blurring on the page. She knew she should be happy, but all she felt was dread.

She felt a throbbing ache behind her eyes. Her hands trembled as she poured herself a cup of tea, the clinking of the ceramic cup against the saucer amplified in the sudden silence of the kitchen. She took a sip, but the tea did nothing to calm the internal storm.

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