worried - Story 169344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with the energy of the crowd, each transaction a minor negotiation. She felt exposed, vulnerable. The impending presentation was the weight that had been on her, heavy and unyielding. Then, a flash of familiar stitching, a faded red bow. It was Rupert.

Her fingers clenched into fists as she stared. She felt a chill despite the warm air. She felt a strange pull, a physical demand to acquire it. The seller, a young man with a bored expression, looked up.

“How much for the… the bear?” she asked, her voice tight. The knot in her stomach tightened. She hated feeling this way.

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