worried - Story 169188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the car seemed to thicken with every mile. He was driving, and usually the radio would be on, or they would be talking. Today, silence. She kept glancing at his profile, seeing a tightness around his mouth, the way his jaw clenched. Her hands fidgeted in her lap, her palms starting to sweat.

She took a deep breath, trying to calm the rapid beat of her heart. He’d seemed so different lately, evasive, secretive. The destination, a remote cabin in the woods, suddenly felt ominous.

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