worried - Story 169409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark examined the roof, his brow furrowed. His sister, Jessica, stood beside him, her face pale. The roof was in terrible shape. The whole house was.

He knew what this meant: money, time, effort. All things they lacked. He imagined the work, the endless to-do lists. He felt a throbbing ache in his temples.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling. The prospect of what lay ahead filled him with a profound sense of exhaustion.

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