stressed - Story 140994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dorm room was a mess, clothes strewn across the floor, textbooks piled precariously on the desk. He hadn't slept properly in days. The notification had arrived just as he was starting to feel marginally better. He stared at the screen, and the room began to spin.

The essay, once a source of pride, now felt like a scarlet letter. He ran a hand through his hair, yanking at the strands. This was the moment he’d been dreading. What if they all knew? What if his friends, his professors, his *family* read it?

He needed air, he needed to escape. He grabbed his keys and bolted out the door, the words of the essay echoing in his mind. He just wanted to be alone.

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