worried - Story 169296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He checked the time, again. It was almost time for the guests to arrive. He was so close to the final reveal, the big moment. He heard his phone ping. With trembling hands, he read the notification, his mouth falling slightly ajar. The plans were completely off. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him, his stomach churning uncomfortably. He stared at his reflection in the hallway mirror, seeing a stranger staring back at him. His skin felt cold and clammy. His breath came in shallow gasps.

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