worried - Story 169138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the courtroom, where the hearing was to take place, felt stagnant. The judge's voice boomed. Sarah sat at the table, her hands clasped tightly together, her knuckles white. She couldn’t meet her parents’ eyes. She didn’t want to see their disappointment.

The room was filled with the murmur of other students. Each word felt like a stab wound. The evidence was presented, a damning tapestry of copied passages. She looked down at the table and bit her lip.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was a mistake. A big mistake. She could feel a coldness start at her toes and climb upwards.

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