worried - Story 169430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation was tucked discreetly inside a pile of junk mail. Frank found it and stared. The glossy image on the front seemed to mock him. His appetite vanished.

He started to clean his house obsessively, as if tidying up could somehow erase the past. He felt a tightness in his chest, a feeling he couldn’t place. He became preoccupied with his appearance, suddenly noticing every wrinkle, every imperfection.

He found himself avoiding social interactions, withdrawing from his friends and family. The upcoming event felt like a looming disaster, threatening to unravel everything.

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