stressed - Story 140975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the car door a little harder than necessary. Traffic had been a nightmare. The kids were fighting in the back. He had a mountain of paperwork waiting for him at home. The thought of facing it felt like a physical blow.

A soft tap on the shoulder caused him to jump. It was his neighbor, Emily. "Hi, Mark! I’ve been thinking…would you mind if I put in a little garden? In the back? I'll take great care of it, I promise."

Mark stared at her, the blood pounding in his ears. His hands were clenched into fists. He couldn't speak. He just wanted to be invisible. He just needed to breathe. He mumbled and walked off.

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