worried - Story 169304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminably long. Lisa kept checking her watch, her breath catching in her throat. She had finally confronted her manager, Mr. Henderson, and the information she’d received had her reeling. John, with his flashy suits and charm, was making a significant amount more than her.

She had always prided herself on being a top performer. But what had she been working for? She felt a tightening in her chest, a sense of deep disappointment. The doors opened, and she forced a smile as she stepped out.

She needed to compose herself. She had a meeting in ten minutes.

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