worried - Story 169498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Maya's hand. She was trying to call her business partner but couldn't seem to find the courage. The news of the patent rejection was a weight on her shoulders, the dream of her renewable energy source dissolving into dust. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She squeezed her eyes shut, visualizing the meticulous plans she'd poured over for months. Her fingers drummed a rapid tattoo on the table as her mind raced, trying to find a solution that she knew probably did not exist.

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