worried - Story 169466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the old photograph, its edges softened with age. His grandfather’s pipe, a dark briarwood, rested beside it on the display case. It was all that remained of the man, besides the memories. His mother was resolute. The estate sale was in a month, and the pipe, along with other items, was on the list. His breath hitched. He closed his eyes, replaying the scent of tobacco and woodsmoke.

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