worried - Story 169092 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah kept her gaze glued to the floorboards as she unpacked her last box in her childhood bedroom. Dust motes danced in the single ray of sunlight slicing through the blinds, illuminating the remnants of her teenage life – posters of forgotten bands, a chipped porcelain doll. A prickle of unease spread across her skin.

"Do you need any help, sweetie?" Her mother's voice, usually a soothing balm, grated on her nerves. Sarah's hands trembled as she pulled out a framed photograph of herself, younger, happier, with her ex-husband. She quickly shoved it to the back of the closet.

Dinner that night was an ordeal. Every question about her future felt like a landmine waiting to explode. The cheerful banter of her parents felt suffocating, a pressure building in her chest, making it hard to breathe.

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