worried - Story 169024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, pointed teeth grinning up at Elias from the drawing sent a shiver through him. It was a familiar grin, one that haunted his past. His niece, Chloe, was currently ecstatic about “Snuggles,” her new playmate. Elias felt a knot tighten in his gut.

He excused himself to the bathroom, needing to get away from the brightly colored nightmare on the kitchen table. He splashed cold water on his face, staring at his reflection. His own face looked pale. What did this mean?

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