worried - Story 169137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library, usually a haven, felt like a prison. Liam sat hunched over a textbook, unable to focus. The words blurred before his eyes. The weight of the accusation felt crushing. He wanted to scream.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. He couldn't keep doing this; the pressure was overwhelming. He should have been more careful. He should have known.

He closed his eyes, squeezing them shut, trying to shut out the world. His future, his dreams, felt as if they were slipping away.

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