worried - Story 169079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of dizziness washed over Daniel as he recognized the distinctive blue hoodie. The person wearing it was standing in line at the same grocery store, the very same grocery store he'd just told "CodeCrusader" he frequented. His shoulders tensed.

He quickly scanned the other shoppers, his mind racing. He felt a sudden, desperate desire to be invisible. He tried to duck behind a display of cereal boxes, but it was too late. He caught a glimpse of a face, and he recoiled, feeling exposed.

He froze. He felt like a deer caught in headlights. His breath hitched in his throat.

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