stressed - Story 140880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That’s…impossible," Ethan muttered, his voice hoarse. He was staring at the billboard – his architectural rendering, used for a massive new development, with someone else’s name proudly displayed.

He leaned against the cold brick wall of the building across the street, his legs feeling unsteady. His mind felt like a tangled web. He couldn't think straight.

He felt the sudden, frantic urge to bolt, to run until he couldn't run anymore. He closed his eyes, his head swimming with the sheer audacity of it all. He had no control, no power.

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