worried - Story 169569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched in her throat as she stared at the email. David was having a pool party; her picnic in the park suddenly felt… inadequate. She ran a hand through her hair, a gesture meant to soothe but achieving the opposite.

Her picnic basket, meticulously packed with homemade sandwiches and cookies, now appeared pathetic. A wave of unease flooded over her.

She imagined the laughter, the splashing, the carefree joy of David's party. She was sure hers would be a ghost town. Her chest felt constricted.

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