worried - Story 169078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery person handed Sarah a package, and her stomach dropped. On the label was the same handwriting she’d grown familiar with from the notes her online friend, "PixelPioneer," had sent her. A wave of nausea rolled over her. She'd confided in PixelPioneer about her birthday.

She ripped open the package, her hands shaking. Inside was a framed piece of artwork, something she had mentioned admiring online. She backed away from the table, taking several steps. Her legs felt weak.

She felt trapped. She didn't know what to do. The gift felt like a threat.

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