stressed - Story 140895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria was a blur of noise and chatter, but for Emily, it felt like she was trapped in a vacuum. She sat alone, pushing her untouched lunch around her plate. The 'C' on her history project felt like a lead weight in her gut. She couldn’t shake the feeling of inadequacy that washed over her. She’d spent weeks researching, writing, editing. The world around her seemed distant, muted, as if observed through a pane of frosted glass.

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