stressed - Story 140678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the words, unable to process them. Professor Lee was moving to a different country. The announcement felt like a punch to the gut. The knot in his stomach tightened.

He stood up, his legs shaky. He wandered aimlessly around his apartment, unable to focus. He glanced at the stacks of books and papers, and the daunting enormity of his project slammed into him. Who could possibly understand his subject matter as Professor Lee did?

He ran a hand through his hair, his head aching. He needed a drink, he needed to think, he needed a solution, but his mind was blank. The future seemed dark and uncertain. He felt a deep sense of disorientation.

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