worried - Story 169242 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down David’s temple as he stared at the printout. The test results weren't his. He knew he was supposed to be in perfect health. This stranger’s diagnosis, a serious one, seemed to mock his own good fortune. He clenched his jaw, his muscles tight.

He threw the papers onto the kitchen table, the sudden movement causing his coffee cup to rattle. He paced the small room, his mind racing. What if he missed something? What if he really was sick, and they were giving the wrong information?

He texted his wife, his thumbs fumbling over the keys. The words came out jumbled, incoherent. He wanted to scream. He wanted her to understand. He wanted everything to be alright.

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