stressed - Story 140746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the spreadsheet, numbers blurring before his eyes. The quarterly report was due, and he was behind schedule. Each number, each calculation, felt like a weight pressing down on him. A sudden, violent tremor shook the house, followed by a loud cracking sound. He rushed to the front door, heart hammering. The monstrous oak in Mr. Davies’ yard had toppled, partially demolishing his prized rose bushes. He wanted to scream.

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