worried - Story 169269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed his locker shut, the metal echoing loudly in the deserted hallway. Anger flared, but it was quickly replaced by a wave of something else, something deeper and more unsettling. He clenched his fists so hard that his fingernails dug into his palms. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe. He looked down at his shoes, at the worn laces he had tied a thousand times. They seemed unfamiliar, as if they belonged to someone else.

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