stressed - Story 140709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She had a headache that throbbed behind her eyes, and her back ached from hunching over her computer. The negativity of the team meeting had sunk into her bones. Her energy felt completely depleted.

"Are you all right?" Daniel inquired, his tone concerned.

She simply nodded, unable to speak.

Daniel pointed to a small, worn photograph on her desk: kids sitting around a campfire. "Is that you at Camp Riverside?"

She exhaled deeply. "Yes," she managed, her voice barely a whisper. "1999."

"I was there too! Remember the ghost stories? That place was full of them."

A small, genuine smile finally flickered across her face.

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