stressed - Story 140947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of dishes in the sink was deafening, amplified by the hollowness in Clara's chest. She had discovered the book, the manuscript detailing their life together. It portrayed her as a demanding, critical partner. The words had pierced her heart.

She scrubbed at the dishes with excessive force, the water cold against her skin. Her hands trembled. She kept replaying the scenes in her head, the unflattering portrait of herself.

She turned off the tap, the silence immediately amplifying the ache in her chest.

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