stressed - Story 140758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you even listening?” Mark's voice was a low growl, a rumble that indicated the building pressure. He surveyed the chaotic mess of his office: stacks of paperwork, overflowing in-trays, and a looming deadline. His chest felt constricted. His assistant had been trying to get his attention for five minutes, but all he could focus on was the insistent throb behind his temples. He needed to clear his head, but where to start? A postman arrived, handing him a thin envelope.

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