worried - Story 169226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Why?" Sarah whispered, the word barely audible. The question hung in the dusty air, directed at the boxes of her past. She felt a nervous tremor in her hands as she lifted a file.

Her mother's meticulous organization felt both impressive and stifling. Each carefully preserved report card, each neatly stapled worksheet, was a testament to her mother's devotion. And a reminder of Sarah’s past failures.

A sudden lightness in her head made her dizzy. She sunk to her knees, needing to find something to stabilize her.

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