worried - Story 169711 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crackled in Amelia's trembling hands. The sharp edges of the notice seemed to dig into her palms. Her breath hitched, shallow and rapid. She stared at the bold, unforgiving text, her vision blurring slightly. The rent was late, she knew. Bills had piled up. She ran a hand through her hair, the strands catching on her fingers. A cold dread crept through her, settling in the pit of her stomach. The small apartment, her sanctuary, suddenly felt like a cage.

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