worried - Story 169328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Chef Kai's hand. He scrolled through the scathing review again. Each sentence, each carefully chosen insult, landed like a physical blow. A cold wave washed over him. He felt as if he were falling.

He went to the walk-in refrigerator, seeking solace in its chilly embrace. The familiar smell of fresh produce, usually invigorating, now seemed to mock him. He rested his forehead against the cold metal, desperately trying to steady himself.

He was losing his restaurant, he realised. He was losing everything. The thought sent a fresh wave of nausea through him. He leaned against the shelf, unable to move.

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