worried - Story 169548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea churned in Robert’s stomach. He stood in front of his son, Sam’s, bedroom door, unable to bring himself to knock. He knew what he would find. He knew the truth.

He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his face tight. His breathing was shallow, rapid. The images on the hidden account had left him shaken, unnerved.

The silence from inside the room was almost unbearable. He wanted to go back to the moment before he had found the account. He longed for the days of innocent ignorance.

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