worried - Story 169686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced in the darkened living room, the faint glow of the television screen reflecting in his anxious eyes. Collecting vintage vinyl records was his escape; now it was driving him crazy. His son, Alex, had a library of records of his own, and was constantly searching for rarities. The boy spent all of his free time at record stores or online, and often forgot to eat. He was pale and gaunt. Thomas felt a tightening in his throat.

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