worried - Story 169639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender filled the air as Eliza carefully unfolded the letter. She had written it to her son, before he left for college, a desperate attempt to express her feelings of love and her deep-seated fear of letting go. She had been unable to let go, and the letter was still in her possession.

Her gaze drifted to the framed photo of her son on the mantelpiece, his young face beaming back at her. Her hands felt clammy, and a knot formed in her stomach. She reread the words, each sentence a reminder of the chasm that had grown between them over the years.

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