worried - Story 169503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thump of the tennis ball against the fence became a soundtrack of increasing unease. Emily paced her kitchen, the dog's insistent barking echoing through the open window. It was Sparky, again.

Her fingers danced on the countertop. She considered calling the animal shelter. Or perhaps calling the police. She didn't want any trouble, but she also didn't want the dog to get hurt.

The smell of something burning from the stove jolted her to move.

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