worried - Story 169169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sudden wave of nausea washed over her. Every happy face, every cheerful greeting, felt like a personal affront. Laura clutched her clutch purse tightly, her knuckles white. She had hoped, with all her heart, that she wouldn't see him here.

She scanned the room, her gaze darting from one group to another, searching for that familiar face. The thought of an encounter made her skin crawl. She desperately wanted to retreat, to disappear.

She picked at the hors d'oeuvres on her plate, unable to taste anything. The cheerful music grated on her nerves. She felt a growing sense of panic, the world closing in on her.

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