stressed - Story 140698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The back of Leo's neck was stiff. He was struggling to focus on the report in front of him. The air seemed thin, making it difficult to breathe. The promotion was down to him and Carol, and everyone knew that Carol was the favorite.

He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging a whole handful. He wished he could go home. He got up and walked to the window, staring out at the city below, which felt a million miles away.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee.

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