worried - Story 169343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless Florida sun beat down on her, mirroring the fiery discomfort blossoming inside Evelyn. Each breath was a conscious effort, a reminder of the upcoming interview. But then, there it was, nestled amongst a pile of chipped teacups and tarnished silverware. It was Patches.

Her pulse quickened. She felt a lightness in her head. She had assumed it had long since been lost, discarded. A wave of both nostalgia and something else, something harder to define, washed over her.

“Is that… for sale?” she inquired, her voice wavering slightly. The seller, a man with a weathered face, simply nodded, clearly not grasping the significance of the item. Evelyn felt a sudden urge to run away.

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