worried - Story 169347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his hands start to tremble. The impending review at work was playing on his mind. He wasn't usually so rattled, but his future felt uncertain. Then, amidst the junk and the clutter, it appeared. Teddy, with his stitched smile and missing ear.

He stared. He felt suddenly dizzy. His pulse raced. He found himself unable to breathe properly. He had forgotten how small Teddy was. A knot formed in his stomach.

"How… how much?" he managed to stutter. The seller, a teenage girl with multiple piercings, simply shrugged. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee.

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