worried - Story 169096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his childhood bedroom, the floorboards creaking under his weight. Sunlight streamed through the curtains, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. The room, crammed with the detritus of a past life, felt too small, the air thick and stale.

His father knocked softly, then peeked his head in. "Everything alright, son?" His voice was gentle, but the query felt like an accusation. He forced a smile, a grimace really, and nodded, shrugging his shoulders.

He knew he should be grateful for their hospitality, for their willingness to take him in. But the burden of their expectations, the unspoken disappointment, pressed down on him with each passing moment. He could practically feel the scrutiny of his parents' gaze.

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