stressed - Story 140998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink around him. The air grew heavy, difficult to breathe. He stared at the article, his application essay now a shining example to prospective students. It was supposed to be a success story, but he only felt exposed.

He ran a hand across his forehead, trying to wipe away the sheen of perspiration. He felt a deep, unsettling feeling in the pit of his stomach. His thoughts, normally racing, were stuck in a loop.

He took a deep, shuddering breath. It felt like he was drowning. He needed a distraction, something to take his mind off this. He grabbed his phone and started scrolling, searching for anything to numb the feeling.

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