worried - Story 169391 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique bookstore smelled of aged paper and dust. Amelia ran a trembling hand across the spines of the leather-bound volumes. The doctor's words echoed in her mind, a low hum of apprehension. She needed a distraction, something to quiet the incessant thrum of unease in her chest. Picking a random novel, she retreated to a quiet corner, the weight of the book a small comfort.

As she turned the first page, a thin, yellowed envelope slipped out. It was addressed in elegant cursive, the ink faded but legible. Her pulse quickened. She pulled out the folded letter.

Inside, a woman's voice, full of love and regret, spoke of choices and consequences. Amelia felt a tightening in her stomach, mirroring the ache in the writer's heart.

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