worried - Story 169628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood drained from Mark's face as he saw the notification. Ms. Garcia, his Spanish teacher, was now following him on Tumblr. He’d written several angsty posts about school and personal issues. He felt a chill run through him.

He was a nervous wreck the next day in class. He stammered when he was called on to speak, and he couldn't concentrate on the lesson. He wanted to delete everything. He felt self-conscious and awkward, wanting to disappear.

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