stressed - Story 140696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Just breathe,” Olivia whispered to herself, attempting a yoga pose in the empty office. She was alone, trying to ground herself. Her muscles were tight, her neck aching. The competition for the senior role was fierce, and her opponent, Peter, possessed unwavering confidence.

She could hear the muffled chatter from the conference room where a crucial meeting was happening. Every noise seemed amplified. She abandoned the pose.

She felt a knot in her stomach that wouldn't loosen.

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