stressed - Story 140748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The argument with his wife still echoed in his ears. Every word, every accusation, stung. He needed to get away, to find some space. He grabbed his keys and headed for the door, only to be stopped by a deafening crash. He ran outside to see what the commotion was about. A portion of the sprawling maple that shaded the Millers’ yard had broken off, crashing onto his newly painted car. He slammed his fist on the roof, the metal vibrating beneath his hand.

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