worried - Story 169267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home felt excruciatingly long. Sarah stared out the window, watching the familiar landscape blur past. Her stomach was doing flip-flops. Her ears were ringing with the echo of the coach’s words. Her throat constricted, making it difficult to swallow. The air around her felt thin, like she couldn't catch her breath. She absentmindedly twisted the strap of her duffel bag, her knuckles turning white. Each passing mile felt like a mile separating her from her purpose.

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