worried - Story 169594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt thick, stifling. Michael traced patterns on the desk with his finger, the wood cool and smooth against his skin. He avoided eye contact with anyone. He hadn’t touched his lunch, a sandwich he'd bought hours ago.

He kept seeing the editor's face in his mind, the brief expression he couldn’t decipher. Now he just saw it as a moment of finality. He needed to write; he needed to feel in control. He pushed the feeling of paralysis out of his mind and opened the laptop and began to write.

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