worried - Story 169278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a terse email: “Effective immediately, you are moved to the IT department.” Maria’s breath hitched. She was a librarian. Information Technology was a world she did not understand.

The silence of her office felt heavy. She stared at the books on her shelves, each a familiar comfort. She didn't want to leave this place. She had built this library. She wanted to stay.

She spent her afternoon filing books. It was a reflex to make herself feel safe and in control. The transfer felt like she was being uprooted, and that felt difficult.

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