worried - Story 169337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the office seemed to pulse, a relentless rhythm mirroring the pounding in her head. She kept clicking refresh on the *Le Petit Chef* website, hoping for a miracle. There was none. The banner, black and stark, remained. Closed. Permanently.

She pushed her chair back, the wheels squeaking on the linoleum. The silence of the office was deafening. She felt a chill, despite the stuffy air. She wanted to go home. She needed to be somewhere safe. She needed… comfort.

She closed her eyes, and she could almost smell the French onion soup.

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