worried - Story 169179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise of the construction site was jarring. He should have been happy to see his friend, Anna. Instead, he felt a profound sense of unease. She was supposed to be a successful architect. He'd seen her, wearing a hard hat, operating a jackhammer.

He'd assumed he knew her, but everything was now in question. A tightening sensation gripped his chest, making it hard to breathe. The air felt thick.

He fumbled for his cigarettes, his hands shaking. He felt like the ground beneath him was collapsing.

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