stressed - Story 140808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone slipped from his hand, clattering against the hardwood floor. David stared at the screen, the words “Half-sister found!” flashing mockingly at him. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. His head was pounding. The room spun. He sank down onto the nearest chair, his legs suddenly weak. He felt a primal instinct to run, to escape the confines of his own reality. He picked up the phone, the cold metal a stark contrast to the heat rising in his 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