stressed - Story 140900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well in days. Now, staring at the dreaded 'C' on his economics exam, James felt a hollow ache in his chest. He felt a cold dread creeping into his bones. His appetite had vanished, and he couldn't concentrate on anything. He wanted to scream, to lash out, but instead, he simply sat, frozen, his gaze fixed on the damning letter grade. He felt the sting of tears in his eyes, but he refused to let them fall.

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