worried - Story 169402 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza chewed the inside of her cheek as she circled the overgrown garden. The overgrown weeds scraped against her ankles, and she kept picturing snakes. Her stomach did a flip-flop. The sheer size of the property was daunting. How would they manage this?

Her brother, Ben, called out from the porch, "Find anything interesting?" His voice sounded so relaxed. She wished she could feel that way.

The crumbling brick of the house stared back at her. All those years, so many memories and now… what? A burden? A responsibility? She couldn't shake the feeling of being utterly overwhelmed.

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