worried - Story 169110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her smile felt stiff, unnatural. Maria gestured toward the printer, her hand trembling slightly. She’d spent the last week meticulously organizing her files, a last act of control, but she knew it was pointless.

"So, the printer setup is pretty simple," she mumbled, her voice faint. The young man she was training nodded, his eyes bright and attentive. Maria wished he would just leave.

She felt a cold, empty void opening up inside of her. She’d poured so much of herself into this job, and now it was all slipping away. She kept glancing at the door, as though she might just bolt.

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