stressed - Story 140837 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the office felt suffocating. Mark stared at the statement, the numbers blurring through his teary eyes. The information printed on the paper in black and white was just too much for him to take. He felt lightheaded.

He had been irritable lately. Small things easily sent him into a rage. He had been staying late at work to avoid going home. His marriage, his whole life, felt like it was on the brink of collapse.

He stood up, his chair scraping against the floor. He needed to leave, to get some air. He had to confront this.

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