worried - Story 169030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drawing, a swirl of jagged lines and unsettling hues, lay before him. "Zip, again!" exclaimed Ethan's nephew, Sam. The likeness to the imaginary friend Ethan once knew was uncanny. He felt a deep unease.

He pushed away from the table, his chair scraping against the floor. He needed air. He walked out to the porch, the summer heat doing little to soothe the cold that had settled in his bones. The world, usually bright and welcoming, seemed to have taken on a sinister cast.

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