worried - Story 169346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza clutched her purse, her knuckles white. She was running late, running behind, and that’s what she was afraid of. The auction was looming, an event that had the potential to change everything. And now this. The bear. Barnaby.

Her breath came in shallow, rapid pants. A flush crept up her neck. The sheer unexpectedness of seeing it, after all this time, was unnerving. She glanced around nervously.

"How much?" she repeated, her voice strained. The woman selling items gave her a look of mild annoyance. Eliza could feel her throat closing up.

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