worried - Story 169518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to the school felt agonizingly slow. Michael gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white. He glanced at the rearview mirror, checking his appearance, though he knew he couldn’t change anything.

Coach Carter had requested a meeting. The reason was a mystery, but the implications were clear. He could only imagine the worst scenarios. He had always played his heart out.

He gripped the steering wheel even tighter, the leather groaning under the pressure. The palms of his hands were slick with sweat. His vision swam as he approached the school grounds, the building suddenly looming, menacing.

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