worried - Story 169339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach flipped as she read the online article about *Mama Rosa's Trattoria*. The words blurred together. Closing. The sentence echoed in her head. She felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of dread, as if a vital piece of her life was being ripped away.

She walked into the kitchen, mechanically. The familiar scent of her own cooking, usually comforting, felt alien. She leaned against the counter, her arms crossed tightly over her chest. She needed to… she needed to feel grounded.

She reached for the phone. "Dad?"

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