stressed - Story 140760 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the responsibilities was crushing. He sat at the kitchen table, the half-eaten dinner growing cold. His head felt heavy, and his shoulders slumped forward. He hadn't slept properly in days, and the dark circles under his eyes spoke volumes. His gaze drifted to a framed photograph on the wall, a reminder of happier times, now tainted by a bitter taste. He opened the mailbox to see a letter, the handwriting immediately familiar.

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