worried - Story 169349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach was in knots, and she could feel the edges of a headache forming behind her eyes. The divorce proceedings were weighing on her, and she felt as if she was in the middle of a storm. Then, there it was. Her childhood companion.

Her heart began to pound against her ribs. She felt as though the world was closing in on her. She had been searching for it for years, and now she didn't want to look at it. She looked at the bear.

"How much?" she asked. The woman, whose name tag read "Brenda", simply pointed with her chin at a price tag. The air felt thin. She felt as though she couldn't breathe.

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