worried - Story 169235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital clock on her bedside table blinked 3:00 AM. Sleep was out of the question. The screen of her tablet illuminated her face, reflecting back the anxious lines etched around her eyes. The website, with her diary's contents, was open.

She couldn't tear her gaze away. Each sentence was like a stab, a reminder of the naive, unguarded girl she used to be. The memories, once so carefully guarded, were now on display. A chill ran down her spine, and she pulled the covers tighter.

She hugged her knees to her chest, feeling suddenly very small and vulnerable. She was overcome by the sensation of being utterly powerless. It was a suffocating feeling.

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