stressed - Story 140838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright sunlight of the park felt harsh against Amelia's eyes. She clutched the bank statement, hidden beneath a magazine, her fingers digging into the paper. The park, usually her sanctuary, suddenly felt like a cage. She couldn't focus on anything. She felt her chest tighten.

She had been experiencing persistent headaches. She couldn't sleep. Her appetite had disappeared. Her once-vibrant world had become a blur of anxiety and confusion.

She knew she had to talk to him. Face him. But the thought filled her with dread. The words felt like lead in her mouth.

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