stressed - Story 140706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a familiar pressure in his chest, a dull ache that seemed to worsen with each passing email. The project was behind schedule, the clients were irate, and the team was falling apart. He needed a miracle.

"You look like you need a vacation," Maria observed, her voice sympathetic.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture almost desperate. "I wish," he sighed.

Maria gestured to a photo that was hidden beneath a stack of files: a group of kids, posing in front of a sign that read, 'Camp Sunnyside.' "Is that you?"

He looked up, a glimmer of recognition in his eyes. "Yeah, that's me. 2001."

"No way! I was there too! The water balloon fight of the century, right?"

He actually chuckled.

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