worried - Story 169598 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop was too loud, too bright. Liam watched the barista expertly craft a latte, his hands moving with fluid grace. He, on the other hand, felt clumsy, disconnected. The publisher's decision was a tangible presence, a dark cloud looming over him.

He picked at a sugar packet, tearing it into tiny pieces. He could barely taste his coffee. He felt a profound sense of loss, as if something crucial had been ripped away. He had to decide what he was going to do.

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