worried - Story 169004 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop was too loud, too bright. Amelia kept avoiding eye contact, even with her best friend, Sarah, who sat across from her. Sarah was excitedly pointing out something on her phone, but Amelia could only see the photo again in her mind. Her illustration, “Whispers in the Woods,” now a permanent part of a stranger's shoulder.

She took a long sip of her latte, then her hand shook as she brought it to her mouth. The warm liquid did nothing to calm the chill that had settled deep within her. The world felt unbalanced, like standing on shifting sand.

“Are you alright, Ames?” Sarah asked. Amelia tried to smile, but her lips felt stiff, unnatural.

Emotion: worried

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.02 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.43

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion worried. 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 worried stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the worried emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the worried vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`worse`	0.285
`S`	0.279
`😰`	0.277
`😣`	0.269
`Worse`	0.250

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.476
`de`	-0.432
`🎉`	-0.233
`happy`	-0.231
`"`	-0.228