stressed - Story 140980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was a suffocating blanket. The sun beat down, the shadows grew longer. She felt a profound emptiness, a yawning abyss within.

The doorbell, a sharp, intrusive sound, dragged her from her numb reverie. It was Mr. Bell, a shovel resting on his shoulder. "Good afternoon, Susan! I was hoping... would you mind if I started a small vegetable patch on the side of your property? Just a little something."

Susan felt a tear escape, tracing a path down her cheek. She didn't want to engage. She didn't want to see anyone. She just wanted to disappear. She closed the door.

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