worried - Story 169356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to whistle, a forced attempt at nonchalance, but the sound died in his throat. The attic entrance loomed before him, a dark maw promising secrets and the unknown. He'd put off this inspection for far too long. Now, he couldn't stall any longer.

He swallowed hard, the muscles in his throat constricting. He gripped the flashlight, his fingers numbing from the chill of the metal. He stepped forward and paused, his breath fogging in the air.

He took another step, then another. He had to know. The anticipation felt like a physical weight, pressing down on him.

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