worried - Story 169468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate, silver tea set gleamed under the harsh fluorescent lights of the kitchen. His sister was buzzing around, filled with a strange, frantic energy. He felt his face flush. He remembered tea parties as a child, the gentle clinking of cups, the scent of Earl Grey filling the air. “It’s just taking up space,” his sister said, her voice sharp. His hands felt clammy. He looked away, focusing on the chipped paint on the windowsill.

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