worried - Story 169514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure you're alright, Mark?" His mom's voice echoed in the hallway, laced with a concern that mirrored his own inner turmoil. He brushed off her question, offering a weak smile. He felt a throbbing pulse behind his eyes that wouldn't cease.

He couldn't eat. The dinner on his plate looked unappetizing. He pushed the food around, the clinking of his fork a distracting noise. The prospect of facing Coach Thompson felt like an immense burden.

He had always strived to be the best. The thought of failure was a cold weight in his chest. He excused himself from the table, claiming fatigue, but the truth was he was simply unable to stay calm.

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