stressed - Story 140668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic hum of the elevator machinery had become a maddening drone to John. He chewed on the inside of his cheek. The upcoming audit. He was certain he had made a mistake. A big one.

He pictured the consequences – the reprimands, the potential job loss. He closed his eyes, his stomach clenching. He felt a cold sweat prickling his skin. It was his fault. All of it.

"Just relax," his coworker, Emily, said, her voice barely a whisper. But he couldn't. He couldn't shake the feeling of impending doom, the certainty of failure. The elevator was becoming his personal hell.

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