worried - Story 169247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news seemed to suck the air from Emily’s lungs. She sat frozen, the mismatched medical records clutched in her hand. The room spun slightly. She couldn’t seem to swallow.

Her usually lively apartment felt claustrophobic. She wandered aimlessly, touching objects, as if searching for something to anchor her. The television blared, but she couldn't process the noise.

She began to pace, the same route, back and forth. She muttered under her breath, a string of incoherent phrases. She had to fix this, immediately.

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