stressed - Story 140850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Could you please..." The words caught in David's throat. He stood in the hallway, his face flushed, his hands clenched at his sides. The bass reverberated through the floorboards, a constant reminder of his predicament. He couldn’t think.

He felt a pressure on his chest, making it hard to take a full breath. The music was a relentless barrage, a constant assault on his senses. He tried to think, but his thoughts scattered like leaves in the wind.

He swallowed hard, forcing himself to continue. He felt his face heat up, his pulse quickening. All he wanted was peace and quiet. He took a deep breath and began again, "...turn it down?"

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