worried - Story 169089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The HOA email, outlining the fence regulations, sat on her desk. She couldn't bring herself to open it. The thought of it made her feel a little sick to her stomach.

She walked around the house, looking out the windows, taking in the open view. The thought of the fence, the visual obstruction, made her physically ill.

She took deep breaths, trying to calm herself. She wanted to call the HOA, to protest, but her voice seemed to have vanished. She finally sat down, but couldn't focus on anything at all.

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