worried - Story 169266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the trophy case in his bedroom, the gleaming awards suddenly irrelevant, tarnished. The feeling in his gut was one of emptiness. He had dreamed of captaining the team, of leading them to victory. Now, those dreams felt like a betrayal. His gaze flicked towards the old jersey hanging in the closet. The fabric, once a source of pride, now felt like a lead weight. He sat down heavily on his bed, the springs protesting under the sudden shift in weight.

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