stressed - Story 140993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed around her, but Amelia was deaf to it. She stared at the glowing screen, the words of her essay, now immortalized, mocking her with their apparent clarity. The little cafe was filled with the aroma of roasting beans, but she felt nothing.

She took a shaky breath, trying to calm her racing heart. The examples used in the application process were supposed to inspire. Instead, they made her feel like a fraud. She hadn't earned this. She felt like an imposter.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. She squeezed her eyes shut, wishing she could disappear, that she could turn back time. She should have written something different, something… better. She pushed the laptop away, unable to bear the sight any longer.

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