worried - Story 169060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless tick-tock of the grandfather clock in the corner of the shop grated on her nerves. She kept adjusting her purse, checking and rechecking the contents. Time, she realized, was not on her side.

She knew she shouldn't have come. She had been warned. But what choice did she have? She glanced at the ring, the light reflecting off the surface, like a beacon.

She stepped forward, her legs unsteady. The shopkeeper's gaze met hers, and her heart skipped a beat. She had to stay composed. She had to. The silence was becoming unbearable.

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