worried - Story 169128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news confirmed what she’d already feared. The flight was grounded. Her knuckles turned white as she gripped the armrest of her seat. It was her anniversary. The realization crashed over her with a jolt.

The details of the missed celebration played in her mind like a broken film reel. She remembered all the plans, the restaurant reservation, the gifts. The entire evening was becoming an increasingly distant fantasy.

She imagined her husband, waiting for her at the restaurant, his face slowly falling. She felt a surge of anguish and a heavy weight settling in her chest. She pulled her phone out and started typing, but she quickly deleted the words, unable to express her feelings.

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