worried - Story 169462 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't done since he was a child. The thought of Dad’s pocket watch, passed down through generations, leaving their family was almost unbearable. He could practically hear the tick-tock, a rhythmic counterpoint to the silence that now filled the kitchen. His stomach churned. The auctioneer’s business card, crisp and new, felt heavy in his trembling hand. “It’s about the money, son,” his father had explained, his voice flat.

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