worried - Story 169178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the espresso machine filled the quiet cafe. He’d waited, watching from across the street. He’d seen Daniel, his long-time friend. He was serving coffee at a local coffee shop. The investment banker, or so he thought.

A coldness settled over him. He felt an intense need to run away, to escape the suffocating reality.

He clenched his jaw, forcing himself to breathe. He realized that everything he knew might be a lie. A tremor started at his fingertips. He felt ill.

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