stressed - Story 140747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cramped apartment felt like a cage. Amelia had just gotten the news: her application for the promotion had been rejected. She was tired of the relentless cycle of underappreciation. She was about to go for a run to clear her head when a loud, grinding noise erupted from outside. Through the window, she watched as the massive sycamore in the vacant lot next door had fallen. It was blocking the only exit for the building. A hot flush spread 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