worried - Story 169706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you go to Camp High Pines?" Alex asked casually, leaning back in his chair. The question hit David like a physical blow. He froze, his hand halfway to his coffee mug.

His throat constricted. He managed a weak smile, but it felt forced, unnatural. He shifted uncomfortably in his seat, the chair suddenly feeling too small. He remembered the tree house, the one that had broken under his weight.

He struggled to meet Alex's gaze, his eyes darting around the office. He wished he had called in sick today. He was trapped.

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