worried - Story 169559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did nothing to ease the tension in the room. Sam could barely swallow the coffee, his hands trembling slightly as he held the mug. He watched as the other man, Alex, excitedly described the benefits of an energetic puppy, his voice booming with enthusiasm. Sam felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. They could barely agree on what to watch on television. A dog felt like too much.

His mind raced, a whirlwind of anxieties. The chewing, the barking, the accidents. The thought of losing control, of the harmony of their lives being disrupted, made him want to flee.

"He'll be part of the family," Alex beamed. Sam shifted uneasily in his chair, the coffee suddenly bitter.

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