worried - Story 169739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sam stared at the chessboard, the pieces frozen in place. The game, usually a source of comfort, now felt like a chore. The announcement from Ben – across the country – had sucked the energy right out of him.

He hadn’t even realized he was still holding the bishop, its smooth surface cold against his palm. He put it down. His gaze drifted to the window, the overcast sky mirroring his mood.

He felt a sudden, sharp pang of loneliness. It was a feeling he didn't care for.

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