worried - Story 169086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, they’re putting up a fence," she muttered, twisting the engagement ring on her finger. The simple statement felt like a weight on her chest.

She kept replaying the conversation in her head. The neighbor's casual announcement, his assured smile. It felt like she should have said something, anything.

She stared at the empty space where the fence would stand, her lips pursed, an involuntary frown creasing her brow. She picked at a loose thread on the sofa cushion, the silence in the room amplifying her unspoken anxieties.

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