worried - Story 169190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in her chest was so intense, it was as if someone had placed a heavy stone there. She watched him on the balcony, phone pressed to his ear, his back turned to her. The golden sunset that usually inspired her was dull and flat.

Her vision swam as she listened to his low voice. She began to pace the floor, unable to sit still. A profound unease was settling over her, a premonition of something terrible. It was going to change everything.

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