worried - Story 169566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank calendar, the stark emptiness reflecting the growing chaos in his mind. He’d booked a small cinema for his birthday, a showing of a classic film and a pizza buffet. Then, came the news of Sam's party: a festival with live music and food trucks.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he often repeated. The cinema now seemed like a tiny, insignificant box, his plans a pale imitation of Sam’s grand spectacle.

His appetite vanished, his stomach twisting into knots. He couldn't shake the feeling of being overshadowed, forgotten, lost in the noise. He felt small and inconsequential.

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