worried - Story 169318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“That’s…that’s wonderful, Sarah,” James managed, his voice sounding oddly strained. He was sitting across from his wife, listening to her recount her recent language learning classes. Except, it wasn't French, the language they'd always shared a passion for. It was German.

A cold wave washed over him. He felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of displacement. He tried to smile, to appear supportive, but his lips felt stiff. He cleared his throat, the sound echoing in the sudden silence. He needed to know why.

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