worried - Story 169747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows as Chloe surveyed the destruction. She saw the neighbor's demolished gazebo, and the branches strewn across their lawn. Her own apple tree, laden with fruit, suddenly appeared menacing.

She felt her pulse quicken as she walked around it, touching the thick trunk. Her mind raced with scenarios. What if it happened to her? What if someone got hurt?

She went inside and closed the blinds, suddenly wanting to shut out the world. The silence of the house was more unsettling than the sounds of the wind outside.

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