worried - Story 169467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, silver locket felt cold against her skin. It had always been her mother’s, a constant presence around her neck. Now, it was being offered to a buyer. She could barely stand the idea, the thought of its history, and its ties to her mother, being severed. She found herself biting her lip, a habit she'd long outgrown. She stared out the window, her gaze fixed on the swaying branches of the oak tree in the garden. Each rustle of leaves echoed the emptiness inside.

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