worried - Story 169549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt too quiet, the silence amplifying the thrumming in Grace’s ears. She looked at her reflection in the darkened screen, her face pale, her eyes wide. Her daughter, Olivia's, secret Instagram account. The pictures told a story she didn't know.

She went to the sink and splashed cold water on her face, but it did little to soothe the disquiet. The thought of this secret life her daughter had been living filled her with a sense of...apprehension.

She walked out of the bathroom into the dark living room, and sat in the shadows of the couch. She could not escape this feeling.

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