worried - Story 169090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched from his window as the construction crew arrived. He found his throat constricted. They were going to do it.

He pictured the wooden planks, the nails, the steady, unstoppable progress. He closed his eyes, his hands clenched tightly.

He sat down, but immediately got back up. He paced back and forth, unable to relax, feeling a growing sense of panic. Each sound of the construction, a hammer blow, sent a fresh jolt through him. The world seemed to shrink.

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