worried - Story 169246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the document, the stark black text swimming before his eyes. The other patient’s information felt alien and wrong. His palms began to sweat. He gripped the edge of his desk, the wood digging into his skin.

He tried to distract himself, reaching for a cup of coffee. He spilled some, the dark liquid staining the white paper. He felt a surge of frustration. This was insane.

He called his lawyer, the urgency in his voice palpable. He needed help. He needed answers. He needed everything to be made right.

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