worried - Story 169690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pungent smell of developing chemicals filled the air. Mark, a photographer, felt a pang of concern. His son, Liam, had taken over the darkroom, his days and nights consumed by the art of photography. Mark had been the first to show Liam how to take a picture, but now, Liam's talent far surpassed his own. He was pale and thin, ignoring all requests from his family. A knot formed in Mark's stomach; he hadn't slept for days.

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