worried - Story 169309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Gary stared at the ceiling, unable to sleep. The information he had received from a casual conversation at the water cooler still echoed in his mind. He’d done the math, and it was undeniable: Peter, a recent recruit, was being paid more.

His mind raced, replaying the conversation, searching for an explanation, any explanation. He tossed and turned, the sheets tangled around his legs. Sleep eluded him. He sat up, swinging his legs over the side of the bed, feeling the cold air on his skin.

He had a meeting with his supervisor tomorrow.

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