worried - Story 169387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands were clammy as she waited outside the concert hall. "Chris" had promised her the best seats in the house. She ran her fingers through her hair, the movement jerky and unsure. She’d told "Chris" how much she loved live music, how much she was looking forward to this date. She saw him approaching, and realized he wasn't alone. Another woman was walking beside him, also smiling, also holding a ticket. A wave of heat flushed her face, and her mouth went dry.

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