worried - Story 169731 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pizza slice felt heavy in Amelia's hand, too heavy. She stared at it, the pepperoni circles seeming to spin slightly. Liam’s announcement about moving to California hung in the air, thick and cloying like the cheese. She hadn't touched her food since. He was saying something about sunshine and career opportunities, his voice upbeat, but Amelia’s stomach clenched with each syllable.

Her fingers traced the edge of the cardboard box. The empty space beside her at the booth felt vast, already. She found herself picking at the corner of the box, tearing small pieces off.

"So… California, huh?" she managed, her voice a little thin. Liam beamed, oblivious.

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