stressed - Story 140997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. The essay, his private thoughts, were now being broadcast for the world to see. He had not anticipated this. He was unprepared.

He slammed his textbook shut, the sound echoing through the otherwise silent study room. He felt a desperate urge to run, to disappear. He needed to get away from this overwhelming feeling.

He picked up his bag, and without a second thought he walked out the door and into the bright sunlight. He found himself walking faster and faster.

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