worried - Story 169444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you... read my journal?" Sarah asked, her voice barely above a whisper. Her roommate, Emily, looked up from her phone, her eyes widening slightly.

Sarah's palms were sweating, and she twisted the hem of her shirt. She couldn't meet Emily's gaze. The air in the room felt thick and heavy. A tremor ran through her limbs.

Emily stammered a denial, but Sarah didn't believe her. The way Emily had been acting all day – distant, withdrawn – confirmed her worst fears. She suddenly felt the need to flee, to escape the suffocating presence. She made up a lie about having to study at the library and bolted for the door, the imagined weight of Emily’s knowledge pressing down on her.

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