worried - Story 169455 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Did you get your results yet?” Jessica asked, her voice chirpy on the phone. "I can't wait to see what mine say!" But Jessica's words felt like a blow. The test results. They had arrived a week ago, and they were a tangled mess of new surnames and distant connections.

Jessica found herself unable to discuss the information. She had abruptly changed the subject. Her heart pounded as she hung up the phone. She felt trapped in an invisible cage.

She went to the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face. The mirror reflected a stranger, a person she no longer recognized. She felt as if she was in freefall.

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