stressed - Story 140702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the mounting paperwork, the piles growing taller with each passing minute. His jaw clenched, and his pulse hammered against his temples. He needed this report on Mr. Henderson's account complete by noon, and his brain felt like cotton.

"Rough day?" Chloe asked, her voice soft as she approached.

He jumped, startled. "Just…busy," he muttered, avoiding eye contact.

Chloe placed a hand on his desk, her gaze landing on a photo he kept tucked away. It was a faded picture of a group of kids, all beaming, wearing mismatched t-shirts. "Is that…Camp Timberwood?" she asked.

He exhaled slowly. "Yeah. 2003."

"No way!" Chloe exclaimed. "I was there too! Remember the talent show disaster?"

His features relaxed a fraction. He actually smiled.

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