Liam slammed his locker shut with more force than necessary, the metal groaning in protest. He had a history paper due tomorrow, and the research was a complete disaster. He slumped against the lockers, replaying the harsh feedback he'd received on the last essay in his head. Then, a notification popped up on his phone: Mr. Davies, his English teacher, had started following him on Twitter. A cold wave washed over him. He deleted a poorly worded tweet about his paper, instantly regretting its existence.

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