worried - Story 169554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lukewarm tea tasted like ash in Clara's mouth. Mark was bouncing on the balls of his feet, his enthusiasm filling the already cramped kitchen. A guinea pig. He wanted a guinea pig. She kept twisting the ring on her finger. The thought of the responsibility, the potential mess, the added cost, made her head swim.

She traced a crack in the countertop with her fingernail. The little cage, the hay, the constant cleanup. It was a commitment she wasn’t sure she could handle.

“It’ll be fun, right?” Mark asked, his eyes sparkling. She forced a smile, knowing that her reluctance was starting to show.

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