worried - Story 169289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes narrowed as she read the request: Michael, the boy who had tripped her and laughed in front of the whole school. The muscles in her jaw clenched, and she felt a tremor in her hands. She couldn't breathe.

She turned away from the laptop, and her gaze traveled around the room, searching for something, anything, to ground her. The pictures of her and her family brought no comfort, just a fresh sting of memories.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was a strange sensation she had not felt in years, and one that she couldn't explain. She forced herself to stand up, to take a step, and then another, away from the scene of the provocation.

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