worried - Story 169469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach was in knots. The old rocking chair, the one her father used to sing her to sleep in, was being offered for sale. She kept running her fingers along the worn wood, trying to feel some of the comfort it used to provide. The auctioneer's catalog, with its glossy pictures, felt like a judgment. She found herself unable to speak, as if a physical barrier had risen around her. The house, usually a haven, now seemed to press in on her.

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