"No, I don't want to talk about it." He spoke to the caller in a harsh tone, and then slammed the phone down. He was surrounded by cameras and lenses. Years spent taking photographs were supposed to be his happy place. His daughter, Chloe, now had all his equipment, and she was already being commissioned. He knew she had talent. His head throbbed, and he could barely think straight. He opened a drawer and pulled out the old photo album. He had a sudden urge to just run away from it all.

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