worried - Story 169364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun was bright, but James felt a sudden chill. The card, with its cartoon balloons, seemed to taunt him. He hadn't told anyone it was his birthday. He hadn't celebrated in years.

He tossed the mail onto the kitchen counter, the card landing at the bottom of the pile. He avoided looking at it as he prepared his breakfast, the silence in the kitchen pressing in on him.

He couldn't shake the feeling that he was being watched, that someone knew something about him that he didn't want revealed. He poured another cup of coffee. He decided to stay home from work today.

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