stressed - Story 140878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Excuse me,” Daniel stammered, his voice tight with barely controlled emotion. He stood before his installation, now labeled with another artist's name in a prestigious museum. He felt the blood draining from his face.

The museum guard gave him a blank stare. Daniel tried to explain, but his words tumbled over each other, a jumbled mess of confusion and disbelief. His throat felt constricted.

He reached out to touch his work, his fingers trembling as he traced the familiar lines. The act was a reflex. It was all he had. All that belonged to him. The situation was surreal, suffocating.

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