stressed - Story 140704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant ringing of the phone amplified the pressure he felt. His stomach churned as he attempted to juggle four different projects at once. His desk was a disaster, papers spilling everywhere. He had to finish editing the video presentation before the end of the day.

"David, you okay?" Sarah asked, her brow furrowed. She was holding a stapler and looking at him curiously.

He gave a forced nod. "Fine, just…swamped."

Sarah pointed at a photo he kept on his desk, a group of kids huddled around a campfire. "Is that Camp Evergreen? I swear I recognize that lake."

He blinked. "Yeah... 2007. You were there?"

Her face lit up. "Totally! I was in the arts and crafts cabin!"

He let out a shaky breath, some of the tension flowing away.

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