stressed - Story 141000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hunched over his laptop, his shoulders tight, his jaw clenched. The announcement, a short, congratulatory email, had filled him with a cold dread. He couldn't focus. He felt a knot forming in his stomach.

He leaned back in his chair, running a hand through his hair. The essay was supposed to be his ticket to a better future. Now, it felt like it was going to destroy it.

He pushed the laptop away, unable to look at the words any longer. He got up and began to pace. He needed something, anything, to make the feeling subside. He couldn't cope, and was starting to unravel.

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