worried - Story 169465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt slick with sweat in his palm. He stared at the screen, the image of his grandmother’s locket shining back at him. It was a beautiful thing, encrusted with tiny emeralds, a perfect circle of green and gold. His mother had called earlier. “We need to let go,” she'd said. He couldn't shake the feeling of disquiet. He paced the length of his small apartment, trying to find a reason to change things. The silence in the room screamed.

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