stressed - Story 140893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"But I don't understand!" Sarah blurted out, her voice cracking. She stood in front of Professor Davies' office door, her hands fumbling with the strap of her backpack. The air in the hallway felt thick, heavy, as though pressing down on her. Her eyes stung with unshed tears. The 'C-' was a betrayal, a brutal judgment of her efforts. She’d always been a good student, a high achiever. The thought of her parents seeing the grade churned her stomach.

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