worried - Story 169029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artwork, a depiction of a lanky, shadowed figure with too many limbs, sat on the kitchen counter. "Shadow" her niece, Clara, called the friend. The name, and the terrifying resemblance to the figure from her past, sent tremors through Elena's body.

She felt a sudden urge to flee the room, the house, the entire situation. She stood frozen, unable to move. The bright, cheerful wallpaper seemed to close in on her. She wanted to scream.

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