stressed - Story 140710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the project bore down on him, suffocating. The endless revisions, the constant pressure to perform, the feeling of inadequacy - it was all consuming. He felt the blood draining from his face.

"You look as though you've seen a ghost," Sarah commented, her voice concerned.

He merely shook his head, unable to find the words.

Sarah gestured toward a framed photo of a younger him, holding a trophy. "Is that you at Camp Starburst?"

His eyes widened, and he managed a weak nod.

"I was there too! 2005. That place was a blast."

He exhaled slowly, the tension easing slightly.

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