stressed - Story 140628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria buzzed with the chatter of students, but Leo found the noise grating, irritating. He was behind on his physics lab reports, the formulas and equations swirling in his head like a confusing whirlpool. He had just finished a less-than-complimentary post about the lab when he realized Mr. Kim, his physics teacher, was now following him on Snapchat. He felt a sudden, hot flush creep up his neck.

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