worried - Story 169043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight, normally a welcome guest, seemed to mock her. The hammering echoing from next door had started before she’d even managed to finish her coffee. Amelia stared at her reflection in the darkened window, the lines around her eyes more pronounced than usual.

Her fingers fidgeted, picking at the loose threads of her sweater. She should go for her morning walk, the one she loved. She should get on with her day. The prospect of leaving her home was now incredibly unpleasant.

She could feel a tightness in her chest, a weight she couldn't identify. The thought of the mess, the disruption, and the unknown… it was all becoming overwhelming. She imagined a mountain, and the work was the ascent.

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