worried - Story 169210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to blur around her. The empty space where her van had been was a black hole, sucking the joy from the day. She felt a cold dread creep into her bones. Her mouth felt dry, her tongue thick.

She tried to rationalize, to find a logical explanation. Had she parked somewhere else? Had she dreamt the entire day? The thought was a sharp stab of anxiety.

She felt a wave of nausea roll through her. She leaned against the brick wall, trying to steady herself. The feeling of helplessness was a lead weight in her chest. This was going to ruin 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