worried - Story 169245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor’s office felt like a pressure cooker. Maria’s breath came in shallow gasps. The nurse had explained the error with a practiced calm that seemed to belittle the gravity of the situation. Her hands fumbled as she gathered her things.

She tried to focus on the nurse’s assurances, but her mind was elsewhere, replaying the wrong diagnosis over and over. She felt a throbbing ache behind her eyes. The drive home was a blur.

She parked the car, but didn't move. She wanted to scream, to shatter something. The sun beat down on the windshield, reflecting the turmoil inside 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