stressed - Story 140894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis as Mark stared at the email. An unexpected 'D' in his Calculus class. He slumped back against his chair, his body feeling like a wet noodle. He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging several strands in the process. His mind raced, replaying every mistake he'd made, every formula he’d forgotten. His future, which had seemed so bright just yesterday, suddenly felt precarious. A cold sweat prickled his skin.

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