worried - Story 169358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself pacing the living room, unable to shake off the unsettling feeling. He glanced at the attic door, its plainness now filled with menace. He was sure he could feel his heart hammering in his chest.

He paused, debating the merits of simply ignoring the unsettling feeling. He needed to know. The house seemed to be holding its breath, waiting. He knew what he was going to find.

He ascended the stairs, each step heavy with apprehension. The attic was dark, and he knew he would soon be in its realm.

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