The world seemed to shrink around Sarah. The eviction notice, a bold headline in the otherwise mundane day, blurred the edges of her vision. She stared at the words, her mind struggling to process the information. A cold wave washed over her, chilling her to the bone despite the warm afternoon sun streaming through the window. She felt a profound sense of helplessness, a weight pressing down on her chest. Her lips were pressed in a tight, thin line. "What am I going to do?" she finally managed, her voice barely a whisper.

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