worried - Story 169619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her mouth felt dry, her heart rate elevated. As the date of the party got closer, she felt a strong aversion to eating. The thought of being in the spotlight made her want to retreat. She didn’t know how she could do this. This wasn't her.

She found herself constantly checking her phone, looking for any message that might offer a reprieve. Every notification sent a jolt of anxiety through her. She was usually organized and composed, but now she was flustered and forgetful.

She wished she could vanish, melt away into the crowd. The anticipation, the waiting, was the worst part.

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