worried - Story 169436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Choco-Lava Cake Craze Sweeping the Nation!" The banner headline screamed from the magazine rack in the grocery store. Amelia stopped dead, her eyes fixed on the image: her cake, the one she created at her tiny cafe. The one she thought was special, and now it was everywhere.

Her lips thinned into a tight line. She felt a familiar hollowness in her stomach, a sensation she knew all too well. She found herself scanning the magazine, looking for any mention of her cafe, her name, anything. There was none.

Her hands moved to her hips, her posture stiffening. She felt a surge of indignation, a burning anger that threatened to consume her. She walked past the rack and left the store.

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