The persistent, throbbing bass permeated the walls, shaking the very foundations of his small studio apartment. Marcus ran a hand through his hair, the strands catching on his agitated fingers. He felt a sharp pain in his back, a knot of tension that had been building for days.

He felt an urge to smash something. He was sick of everything. His jaw clenched as he considered his options. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the hammering in his chest. His hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into his palms.

He slammed his fist on the table, scattering the papers into disarray. He hated the constant intrusion. He felt a growing need to take control, to stop the noise. He turned for the door.

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