stressed - Story 140840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the unopened mail on the kitchen table felt like a physical burden. Sophie sat paralyzed, unable to bring herself to open the envelope. The numbers on the bank statement haunted her, replaying in her mind. Her head was pounding.

She’d been having nightmares, waking up in a cold sweat. She couldn't bring herself to trust anyone anymore, not even herself. The world felt dangerous, full of hidden agendas.

She looked at her reflection in the darkened window. She had changed. She used to be so confident, so sure of herself. Now, she felt like a stranger in her own skin, and the secret account just made it worse.

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