stressed - Story 140654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering neon sign of the all-night diner cast long shadows across the cracked pavement. David chewed his lip, staring at the dimly lit street. His debts were piling up, and the threat of eviction loomed large. He wanted to text his bookie and explain he couldn't make the payment on time. His hand trembled as he typed, then he clicked send. His landlord received the message: "Please, just let me breathe."

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