stressed - Story 140879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach twisted into a knot as she saw her hand-painted ceramic figurines arranged on a shelf in a craft fair. They were exact replicas, poorly done, bearing the name of someone she'd never met.

She felt her face flush, heat creeping up her neck. She struggled to keep her composure, to appear calm amidst the sudden surge of rage. She noticed the crowd milling around.

She wanted to confront the imposter, to scream at her, but something stopped her. She felt pinned, paralyzed. She took a deep, shaky breath, fighting the urge to flee.

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