worried - Story 169239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He scrolled through the website, each entry a fresh wave of mortification. He felt a constant clenching in his stomach, a physical representation of the shame he felt. The world seemed to shrink around him, focusing entirely on the screen in front of him.

He slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in his otherwise empty apartment. He got up and began to pace restlessly, his steps quick and uneven. He felt a powerful urge to run, to escape the suffocating weight of his past.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands in a desperate attempt to ground himself. This was all a disaster.

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