worried - Story 169080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus lurched forward, and a wave of nausea hit Amelia. She recognized the scent of the sandalwood soap. The person sitting behind her had a bag that seemed familiar and smelled like sandalwood. It was the same soap her online friend, "StarrySkies," had described using in detail.

She leaned forward, pretending to be studying her phone, but her vision blurred. Each inhale felt labored. The bus rattled on, each bump a jolt of anxiety. She gripped the metal bar above her head, her knuckles white.

She wanted to scream. She wanted to run. She wished she had never confided anything.

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