stressed - Story 140708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling of being cornered was overwhelming. The deadlines, the expectations, the constant demands - it was all too much. He felt the familiar knot in his stomach tighten with each passing hour.

"You look like you could use a break," Emily said, stopping by his desk.

He gave a tight smile. "Maybe."

Emily gestured to a picture of him, younger, wearing a life vest. "Is that you at Camp Eagle Peak?"

He nodded, surprised. "Yeah. How do you..."

"Small world. I was there in '97. I remember the ropes course. That was brutal."

He found himself smiling.

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