worried - Story 169026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Look, Aunt Carol! It’s Binky!” Finn, her nephew, chirped, holding up a drawing of a creature with oversized ears and a menacing grin. Carol's heart leapt into her throat. Binky, the name she had given her own imagined companion. She felt a wave of nausea.

She took a shaky breath. The vibrant hues of the drawing assaulted her. She found herself clutching the edge of the table, her knuckles white. The ordinary objects around her, the coffee cup, the fruit bowl, took on an unsettling aura. This was more than just coincidence.

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