stressed - Story 140766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Just breathe,” she told herself, the words echoing in the empty space that was her mind. The meeting had been brutal. She felt the scrutiny of everyone. She’d planned to visit the old Cherry Blossom tree and calm her mind.

The sight of the bare patch of earth made her gasp. Her hands flew up to her mouth. The world seemed to tilt slightly.

“What…?” The word caught in her throat. She needed to sit down, to lean against something. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her.

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