worried - Story 169365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a floral card, the kind her grandmother used to send. A shiver ran down Clara's spine. The card wasn't signed, there was no name, but the handwriting on the envelope was familiar, too familiar.

She dropped the card on the table, her stomach twisting. Her grandmother had passed away last year. The hairs on the back of her neck stood on end.

She called her brother, her voice shaky. "Did you send me a birthday card?" He hadn't. She needed to know who knew.

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