worried - Story 169180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see?" David asked. His voice was too loud, too high. He kept staring at the building where he'd spotted Sarah. She said she was working as a doctor. He saw her leaving a daycare center.

His friend looked at him, surprised. A nervous laugh escaped David. He couldn’t seem to stop fidgeting.

He felt the blood drain from his face. He felt like he had been deceived. The world suddenly felt out of focus.

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