stressed - Story 140940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a tightness in his chest, a sense of foreboding that wouldn't let up. He felt the walls closing in. He stared at the email, the rejection notice staring back at him. Just as he was about to lose it, the flowers came. A single, perfect white calla lily.

His knuckles were white as he gripped the stem. No note. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to break something. He squeezed his eyes shut and took a deep, unsteady breath. He felt utterly and completely defeated.

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