worried - Story 169719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He reread the notice in the flickering light of the streetlamp, the words blurring at the edges. His mouth felt dry, and his throat constricted. He stuffed the paper into his pocket, his fingers lingering on the stiff edges. He kicked at a loose stone on the sidewalk, a sudden burst of frustration. The city, usually a source of excitement, now felt menacing and vast, like a hungry beast ready to devour him.

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