worried - Story 169017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was almost physical. Liam ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't done since he was a teenager. His brother, Ben, had just declared he was embracing Rastafarianism. Liam felt a pressure building behind his eyes.

He imagined the reactions of his parents, the arguments that would follow, the rift that could open. He bit down on his lip, tasting the metallic tang of blood. He knew this would not be easy, this change of faith.

Liam felt a knot tighten in his gut. “What does this mean for… everything?” he asked, his voice barely audible. He was picturing his brother’s life and felt… a strong resistance.

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