worried - Story 169736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The painting in front of her felt wrong. The colors, usually so vibrant and alive, appeared dull and lifeless under the studio lights. Across the country. The words had taken root in Maya's mind, a constant, unwelcome companion.

She scrubbed at the canvas with a brush, smearing the carefully applied paint. Her hand trembled, the brushstrokes erratic and uncontrolled. Her heart thudded in her chest.

She blinked back the sudden stinging tears. How was she supposed to create art when the world felt like it was shifting beneath her feet?

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