worried - Story 169023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The salt air, usually a comfort, felt heavy in Amelia's lungs as she watched her nephew, Leo, proudly display his latest creation. A creature with swirling, ink-black eyes, the very image of "Shadow," the friend she had long ago banished, stared back at her. Her lips thinned, she felt a tightness in her chest.

She forced a shallow breath, trying to appear nonchalant. Leo tugged at her sleeve, demanding praise. She managed a weak, "Very good, Leo." The smile felt brittle on her face. The vastness of the ocean, stretching before them, suddenly felt suffocating. The wind seemed to whisper secrets she didn't want to hear.

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