stressed - Story 140699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Easy, Emily, easy,” she muttered to herself. She hated the feeling, the internal whirring and the endless stream of negative thoughts. The promotion was a fierce competition between her and Tom. The office felt like it was closing in on her.

She tapped her pen against her teeth. She couldn't eat. The thought of eating made her stomach churn. Her usual sharp focus had evaporated.

She was suddenly desperate for the day to end.

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