The air in the courtroom hung thick with tension. The verdictโ€ฆ he couldn't even bring himself to think about it. Back home, he moved around in a haze. He needed to find something to center him. He saw a folded piece of paper next to the coffeemaker. It was hers, clearly. "Open a bookstore," it read. Then: "Travel the world." Finally: "Learn to play the piano." A wave of dizziness swept 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:
๐Ÿ˜ฉ0.266
๐Ÿ˜ซ0.256
๐Ÿ˜ฐ0.239
๐Ÿ˜–0.237
๐Ÿ˜ž0.236
Suppressed:
B-0.200
happy-0.197
enjoy-0.176
enjoying-0.172
bahagia-0.169