worried - Story 169368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card landed in his lap as he sat on the porch, sipping his coffee. He felt a tightening in his throat. It was a generic birthday message. He had no friends, no family, no one to send it to.

He tossed the card to the ground, the gesture intended to dismiss his feelings, but it didn't work. His hands clenched into fists, his knuckles turning white. He felt a suffocating pressure in his chest.

He replayed the events of the day in his mind, searching for a clue as to where it came from. He looked back at the card and picked it up.

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