worried - Story 169597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock Amelia. She drifted through the crowd, unable to focus on the paintings. She should be celebrating her friend’s exhibition, but the email, unopened, was a lead weight in her pocket.

She excused herself from a conversation, finding a quiet corner. Her breath came in shallow, rapid gasps. The constant thrum of the city outside seemed to amplify her distress. She knew, with a sinking certainty, what the email would say.

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