stressed - Story 140686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Please," she muttered. She wasn’t sure how many times she had asked that today. Her hands, usually adept at the complex folds of origami, were clumsy. Her origami had become her sanctuary. She would spend hours with the paper, creating beautiful things. Now, her son, Ben, was obsessed. He would fill every surface of the house with his creations. Her boss had just called her, demanding results for their pitch. She sat and tried to take deep breaths, but they felt shallow.

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