stressed - Story 140979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the spreadsheet, the numbers blurring before his eyes. The weight of the deadline pressed down on him. Each notification that popped up on his computer made his heart skip a beat.

The sudden rapping on the door made him start. It was Mrs. Rodriguez, clutching a small watering can. "Hi, Michael! I was thinking about starting a small herb garden. Could I use a part of your backyard?"

Michael felt a surge of heat rush through his body. He felt the muscles in his neck constrict. He felt like he couldn't breathe. "No," he managed, his voice a strangled whisper. "No, you can't."

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