stressed - Story 140625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt thick, heavy, as if it were suffocating her. Chloe, hunched over a mountain of textbooks, felt a familiar ache behind her eyes. Calculus was a foreign language she couldn't seem to grasp. She had been avoiding Mr. Peterson in the hallways, and now, scrolling through her feed, she understood why. He was watching. He'd followed her on Facebook. It felt like an invasion of privacy.

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