worried - Story 169335 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in her hand. A text from her best friend: *Did you see? The Bistro's closing!* Her heart gave a sudden, erratic thump. She’d known this place since she was a little girl, before her parents had divorced, when life felt simpler.

She stared at the text, unable to reply. The room seemed to tilt. A strange sensation, like the ground was crumbling beneath her feet. She reread the message. *The Bistro's closing!*

She wanted to scream. She wanted to cry. She wanted… to make it all stop.

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