worried - Story 169209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John let out a long, slow sigh. He had a million things to do, and now this. His face grew pale, his eyes darting around the neighborhood as if searching for a phantom. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands.

He stared at the driveway, feeling a wave of frustration wash over him. He was already behind schedule. He had to be at the meeting in an hour. His stomach churned.

He opened his phone, his fingers hovering over the contact for the towing company. He hesitated, his mind racing through the potential costs and explanations. It was a problem he didn't want to deal with, a mountain of stress he hadn't asked for.

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