stressed - Story 140919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was deafening after the loud argument. A sharp, insistent ringing - the doorbell. Alex opened the door and saw Mr. Olsen. His gaze went down to the sidewalk. Alex didn't want to engage, but couldn't avoid the conversation.

He launched into his concerns, his voice full of the usual complaints. Alex felt the familiar tightening of his chest. This was the last thing he needed.

Alex looked away, unable to meet his gaze. All he wanted was peace and quiet. He rubbed his forehead. The weight of his responsibilities seemed to press down on him.

He agreed, finally, the words a bitter taste on his tongue. He closed the door.

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