stressed - Story 140892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam slammed his textbook shut, the sound echoing in his small apartment. A wave of heat washed over him, making his palms clammy. He’d poured his soul into the final exam, sacrificing sleep and social life. Now, staring at the D+ on the online portal, he felt a knot of anger tighten in his stomach. He kicked the leg of his desk, the wood groaning in protest. He had to retake the class, delay his graduation. His mother would be so disappointed.

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