worried - Story 169176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you alright, Leo?” Maya asked, her voice laced with concern. He hadn’t touched his food, the aroma of the pasta serving as a cruel reminder of his appetite’s absence. He’d seen John, their shared friend, working at a car wash, not in the bustling tech startup he had boasted of.

He pushed the plate away, the simple act taking more energy than it should. The vibrant restaurant, usually a haven, felt suffocating. He wanted to scream.

He mumbled an excuse, a lie he didn't even believe himself. Maya's gaze was piercing, an unbearable pressure. The weight of his discovery was crushing.

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