worried - Story 169348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was heavy with the scent of old paper and forgotten dreams. Sarah avoided making eye contact with anyone. The results of the exam were coming soon, and she had spent the week anticipating doom. The bear, in its condition, made her feel as though she had been kicked in the chest.

She paused, frozen. It was the same bear she had held as a child. A shiver ran down her spine. The seller, an elderly man with a kind face, watched her with curiosity.

"How much for the… the bear?" she asked, her voice barely a whisper. The air seemed to grow thick. She felt like she was trapped.

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