worried - Story 169699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands trembled slightly as she took her seat. The boardroom was cold, the atmosphere sterile. The interview for the promotion was about to begin. Every nerve ending in her body seemed to be on high alert. The pressure was immense.

She caught a glimpse of David, her competitor, sitting across the table. He gave her a polite nod, but his eyes held no warmth. She knew he wanted this promotion just as much as she did. She took a deep breath, trying to slow her racing heart.

She forced a smile, but it felt brittle. This was it.

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