worried - Story 169420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe was bustling, but Amelia felt utterly alone. She’d found the wallet on the train, tucked beneath a seat. Inside, a passport, credit cards, and an obscene amount of cash.

She stirred her coffee, the spoon clinking against the ceramic cup. She tried to appear composed, to blend in, but the feeling of being observed, of being scrutinized, was overwhelming. She scanned the cafe, searching the faces of those around her.

Her heart hammered against her ribs. She felt as though she was teetering on the edge of a great precipice. Her hand trembled as she reached for her phone, unable to decide what to do. The world around her seemed to blur.

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