stressed - Story 140701 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spreadsheet glared back at Amelia from the computer screen, mocking her. It felt like her eyelids were glued shut, and the coffee from this morning had long since worn off. She ran a hand through her hair, the strands catching on her dry skin. The deadline loomed, a monstrous shadow over her desk.

"Hey, Amelia," a voice chirped. It was Ben, from accounting. "You look…focused."

Amelia managed a weak smile. "Just about to crack this thing."

Ben leaned in, peering at the screen. "Camp Clearwater, 1998, huh?" he asked, pointing at a small, almost illegible entry.

Amelia's breath hitched. "Yeah," she replied, her voice sounding raspy. "How did you..."

Ben chuckled. "Small world, right? I was there too. Cabin 4, the year the canoe flipped."

The familiar ache in her shoulders eased slightly.

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