worried - Story 169505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Here we go again," Mark mumbled, watching Pepper, a tiny chihuahua, sprint across his newly seeded lawn. He pressed his palms to his forehead.

He thought of the landlord's reaction. He thought of the potential fine. He wanted to scream.

He ran outside, yelling, but his voice felt thin and reedy in the face of the dog’s carefree romp. He felt a deep sense of irritation.

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