stressed - Story 140856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the list tucked inside a cookbook, a neatly folded piece of paper. *Go to a concert. Build a birdhouse. Learn to play the harmonica*. Leo felt a tremor run through him as he read the words. His father, a man of routine and practicality, had harbored such secret desires. Leo's chest ached.

He closed his eyes, his knuckles white as he gripped the paper. The demands of his own life—the unpaid bills, the crumbling roof, the loneliness—felt suffocating. He didn't have time for dreams. He barely had time to breathe.

He opened the fridge, searching for something to silence the turmoil.

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