stressed - Story 140950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been able to eat all day. The discovery of the manuscript, written by his wife, Lisa, had left him feeling hollow. The book portrayed him as an emotionally stunted man, incapable of expressing affection. His jaw ached from clenching it, the tightness a physical manifestation of his internal turmoil.

He walked aimlessly around the apartment, unable to settle. He glanced at the photograph on the mantelpiece, their smiling faces a stark contrast to his current state.

He felt a deep and pervasive sense of unease settle over him.

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