worried - Story 169410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just… I don't know," sighed Hannah, her voice barely a whisper. She stared at the overflowing trash bags lined up on the curb. Their parents had passed away recently, and now the process of clearing out their grandmother's house was overwhelming.

Her brother, Luke, gave her a sympathetic look. He squeezed her shoulder. He seemed to know what she was thinking.

She felt a hollowness inside, a kind of aching emptiness. The house, full of the echoes of past lives, and their shared loss.

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