stressed - Story 140730 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I can't breathe," Emily whispered, tugging at the collar of her shirt. The air in her childhood home felt thick, suffocating. She felt utterly overwhelmed.

She'd found the letter while sorting through her grandmother’s things. A draft of a letter, written to her husband. It spoke of her intentions to leave. It spoke of the loneliness. It spoke of her despair.

Emily clutched the paper, her knuckles white. Her grandmother had always seemed so serene. A torrent of conflicting feelings swept through her, a dizzying whirlwind of confusion and despair. The walls of the house seemed to be closing in.

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