stressed - Story 140944 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you even listening?" David's voice was sharp. He hadn't slept well since discovering the novel. The book’s author was his wife, Emily. The book depicted him as a liar, a man who betrayed her trust repeatedly. His stomach churned with every memory of his past and his perceived failings.

He felt the muscles in his shoulders knot as he tried to focus on his dinner. The food tasted like ash. His appetite had deserted him.

Emily, across the table, picked at her food. He couldn't meet her eyes. The silence between them was thick, heavy, suffocating.

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