worried - Story 169136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t understand,” Maya stammered, her voice barely a whisper. She found herself staring blankly at the professor. The color had drained from her face.

The room seemed to spin. The words ‘plagiarism’ and ‘disciplinary action’ echoed in her head, a relentless soundtrack to her distress.

She felt a cold sweat prickling her skin. The professor’s expression remained impassive, the evidence laid out before her. She had to come up with some explanation, some defense. But her mind was a blank page, devoid of ideas.

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