stressed - Story 140707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant noise of the office, the incessant chatter, the ringing phones, all grated on her nerves. She couldn't focus; her head was swimming. The quarterly reports needed to be finished by Friday, and she was nowhere near complete.

"You seem a little… preoccupied," Kevin commented, his voice gentle.

She rubbed her temples, trying to massage the tension away. "Just… trying to get through this," she mumbled.

Kevin pointed to a picture on her desk of kids running through a forest. "That's Camp Willow Creek, right?"

She blinked. "Yes. How did you know?"

"I was there! Remember the time the raccoons got into the ice cream?" He laughed.

Her shoulders visibly relaxed.

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