worried - Story 169562 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure about this, Maya?" Liam asked, his voice tight with concern. The phone felt like a hot potato in his hand. Maya's birthday, and now David's. David's was going to be an epic event, a themed gala, with invitations printed on shimmering paper. Maya's was at the bowling alley.

Liam shifted his weight, a familiar unease settling over him. He knew Maya, her sensitive heart. Her eyes seemed a little duller, her smile a little less bright.

"It'll be fine," she said, but her voice lacked conviction. He watched her pick at a loose thread on her jeans, her gaze distant and unfocused. He feared the coming Saturday, the inevitable comparison, the quiet disappointment he felt sure would be mirrored in her face.

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